The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The function of art is to disturb.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

情感的尾巴摇动着理性的狗。

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.