We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.