Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.