OF DEATH
MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
VIRTUE is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect.
What is truth?” said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting.
It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things, which belong to prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things, that belong to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia.
AMBITION is like choler; which is an humour that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped.
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people–the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
Globalization is often seen as global Westernization. On this point, there is substantial agreement among many proponents and opponents.
Three divergent theories of education all have their advocates in the present day. Of these the
first considers that the sole purpose of education is to provide opportunities of growth and to
remove hampering influences.
Freedom, in education as in other things, must be a matter of degree. Some freedoms cannot be tolerated.