Occupation: Philosopher Birth: September 18, 1917 Death: June 16, 1960
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men..
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not unde….
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an oppositio….
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the ….
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and ….
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's yo….
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?.
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force..
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which make….
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.