Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.