It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

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.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

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.