“Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.” FirstsAgeGoalWeaponsPlanesFulfillmentAdjustment Author:Louis Kronenberger
“This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.” ThinkingMindAgeAnxietyNervesNeurosisGrate Author:Louis Kronenberger
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” AgeFunnyTimeGoalWeekAgingOld AgeExcellentOld PeopleEldersOutrageousOutrage30th BirthdayMoral Outrage Author:Louis Kronenberger
“The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.” AgeTroubleAgingBirthdayDestinationSignposts 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, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.” AgeEffortPayCivilizationTouchedVulgarityBling 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 great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.” IfsAgeMoralityEthicsSickDelusionMoralist Author:Louis Kronenberger
“Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?” PeopleStatesAgeUsedIllMannersCivilizedSensibilityCourtesyNeuroticTriflesHysteriaNausea Author:Louis Kronenberger
“Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.” AgeScienceFaithMoralityEvidenceTestsAccountsMethodExpertsSuperstitionsCopTrafficMysticalSovereigntyInquiryRabbitsInfallibility Author:Louis Kronenberger
