It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs, are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets, with that physics has one method. chemistry another. and biology a third.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics, none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness, as to earn peace and self-respect.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand, nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.