Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

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.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

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