- Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.
- What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
- Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
- The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
- I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.
- We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.
- The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
- A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
- Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
- By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
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