Max Lerner Quotes

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.

Max Lerner

Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

Max Lerner

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Max Lerner

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

Max Lerner

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

Max Lerner

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Max Lerner

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

Max Lerner