Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.

Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

Just because you know doesn't mean they know.