One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of read more

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape.

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.