Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.