Education Is The Instruction Of The Intellect

The Doctrine Of Transmigration… Was A Means Of Constructing A Plausible Vindication Of The Ways Of The Cosmos To Man; … None But Very Hasty Thinkers Will Reject It On The Grounds Of Inherent Absurdity.

I Care Not What Subject Is Taught, If Only It Be Taught Well.

The Great Thing In The World Is Not So Much To Seek Happiness As To Earn Peace And Self-respect.

Science ... Warns Me To Be Careful How I Adopt A View Which Jumps With My Preconceptions, And To Require Stronger Evidence For Such Belief Than For One To Which I Was Previously Hostile. My Business Is To Teach My Aspirations To Conform Themselves To Fact, Not To Try And Make Facts Harmonize With My Aspirations.

Cosmic Evolution May Teach Us How The Good And Evil Tendencies Of Man May Have Come About; But, In Itself, It Is Incompetent To Furnish Any Better Reason Why What We Call Good Is Preferable To What We Call Evil Than We Had Before. Some Day, I Doubt Not, We Shall Arrive At An Understanding Of The Evolution Of The Aesthetic Faculty; But All The Understanding In The World Will Neither Increase Nor Diminish The Force Of The Intuition That This Is Beautiful And That Is Ugly.