No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.