We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.