A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.