Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.