What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.