It is not altogether true that persuasion is one thing and force is another. Many forms of persuasion - even many of which everybody approves - are really a kind of force. Consider what we do to our children. We do not say to them: 'Some people think the earth is round, and others think it is flat; when you grow up, you can, if you like, examine the evidence and form your own conclusion.' Instead of this we say: 'The earth is round.' By the time our children are old enough to examine the evidence, our propaganda has closed their minds.

The love of power is a part of human nature, but power-philosophies are, in a certain precise sense, insane. The existence of the external world, both that of …

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existin…

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singu…