The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
There is no disinfectant like success.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible ‘The World’s Best Seller.’ And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.
There is no known device for artistic contraception.
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.
Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.
The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.
In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.
Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.
The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.