Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.