You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.