From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about. — 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
