It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.