“The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
Max Eastman
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
Max Eastman
“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”
Max Eastman
“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”
Max Eastman
“Hegelism is like a mental disease—you cannot know what it is until you get it, and then you can't know because you've got it.”
Max Eastman