Few great men would have got past personnel.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense it is undemocratic, for it assumes that some people really know better in a way that must seem arbitrary to most. In a large sense it is certainly democratic, in that it makes the great man serve as a man.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.