Currents Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

“Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

— Scott Belsky

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

— Victor Hugo

“Since both knowledge and virtue require the concept of transcendence, they are really obnoxious to those committed to material standards…”

— Richard M. Weaver

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy,…

— Hannah Arendt

“Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.”

— Lao Tzu

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally…

— Samuel Johnson

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

— Aldous Huxley

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

— Northrop Frye

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

— Francis Herbert Hedge