The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.
The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.
The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.
