Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.

Those who dare try are heroic souls.

I heard this when I was in the Air Force: “There’s never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Fashion is far more about really feel than science.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.