In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Artists, Arts, Art
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Writing
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Age, Old Age, Aging
There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Belief
One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Shame
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Morals
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Vanity
The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Advertising, America
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
—Louis Kronenberger
Many people today don’t want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Self-Knowledge, Awareness, Honesty
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
—Louis Kronenberger
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Ambition
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
—Louis Kronenberger
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Fanaticism
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Acceptance
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Progress
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Age, Aging
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Boredom
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