Quotes 801 till 820 of 1070.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
Philistine and Genius (1919) -
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966) -
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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The purpose of education is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Harvard, 14-06-1956
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