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> [In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/in-the-history-of-thought-and-culture-the-dark-nights-have-perhaps-in/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

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## More by Louis Kronenberger

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/today-s-competitiveness-so-much-imposed-from-without-is-exhausting/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/if-it-is-the-great-delusion-of-moralists-to-suppose-that-all-previous/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/conformity-may-not-always-reign-in-the-prosperous-bourgeois-suburb/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/the-moving-van-is-a-symbol-of-more-than-our-restlessness-it-is-the/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/with-intellectuals-moral-thought-is-often-less-a-tonic-that-quickens/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/in-an-automobile-civilization-which-was-one-of-constant-motion-and/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/on-any-morning-these-days-whole-segments-of-the-population-wake-up-to/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/someone-who-gossips-well-has-a-reputation-for-being-good-company-or/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/the-american-way-is-so-restlessly-creative-as-to-be-essentially/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/ours-is-not-so-much-an-age-of-vulgarity-as-of-vulgarization/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/in-art-there-are-tears-that-do-lie-too-deep-for-thought/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/life-for-most-of-us-is-full-of-steep-stairs-to-go-up-and-later-shaky/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/the-truly-ambitious-are-always-as-busy-on-the-landings-as-they-are/)

[Louis Kronenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-kronenberger/)

> [True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/true-individualists-tend-to-be-quite-unobservant-it-is-the-snob-the/)

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> [This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-kronenberger/this-is-i-think-very-much-the-age-of-anxiety-the-age-of-the-neurosis/)

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