Great Throughts Treasury

"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."

"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."

"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."

"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. "

"The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method."

"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."

"You can bear anything-if it isn't your own fault."

"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."