“If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your own mind.”
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“The faster you think you like something, the faster you get bored. Applies to humans too.”
“Human thought and action are the most prolific sources or order in the world as we know it.”
“To be fully human is to be able to make deliberate choices.”
“The greatest quest of humans is that of their untapped potential.”
“On est tous le monstre de quelqu'un.”
“Nothing destroys iron except the rust and nothing destroys human except sorrow.”