To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

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.