Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.