Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.