Explore Quotes by David Brooks

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.