Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Baking isLife. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.