To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence..

Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesse….

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals..

On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting furthe….

The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minde….

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it w….

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some….

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so..

On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or….

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on f….

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small wor….

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not t….

Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary cap….

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to ….

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a ….

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable….

My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don'….

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression..

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight..

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one..

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that utter….