It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

It is doubtful whether a supreme master of style could pack all the elements of truth that complete justice would demand into a hundred word account of what had happened in Korea during the course...

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

The modern skeptical world has been taught for some 200 years a conception of human nature in which the reality of evil, so well-known to the age of faith, has been discounted. Almost all of...

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult.”The intolerable burden of thought.

…we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is,...

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor cars, on bridge-whist and post-mortems, on moving pictures and potboilers, talking always to...