However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.