“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.