Louis Kronenberger Quotes

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.