The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
Walter LippmannEvery fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
Walter LippmannThe devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
Walter LippmannBecause the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.
Walter Lippmann