For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
Category Archive: 1863
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.