Died on April 29 — Quotes

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

Just to be on the first step should make you happy and proud. To have come this far is no small achievement: what you have done is a glorious thing. Even this first step is a long way above the ordinary world. To stand on this step you must be in your own right a member of the city of ideas. And it is a hard, unusual thing to be enrolled as a citizen of that city. Its councils are full of Legislators no charlatan can fool.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

humility proceeds from self-knowledge.

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals.

I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)

No investigation of concepts can tell us that 2 + 2 = 4.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

That ∨, ⊃, etc., are not relations in the sense of right and left, etc., is obvious.

Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion? (How serious people's faces have become.) Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly, everyone going home lost in thought?<p>Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come. And some of our men who have just returned from the border say there are no barbarians any longer.<p>Now what's going to happen to us without barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

When setting out upon your way to Ithaca, wish always that your course be long, full of adventure, full of lore.