One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.