Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.