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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.