A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.