“The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.”
“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)”
“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.”
“This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.”
“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual power of human mind. ”
“Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.”