Few great men would have got past personnel.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

The family is the American fascism.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

Never try to out drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.

I don't need my name anywhere.