What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
Never memorize something that you can look up.