To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

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.

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

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.