The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.