Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.