I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.