"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud."

"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."