Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.