“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.”
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.