1. “It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.”
2. “Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.”
3. “To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.”
4. “The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.”
5. “We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by the fantasies as well.”
6. “To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.”
7. “A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.”
8. “It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.”
9. “Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.”
10. “Intellectualism though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.”
