The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down,… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
