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

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 world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

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

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.