"The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less . . ."

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

"Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented."

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.