Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.