Irwin Edman

“There is a sense of eternity in the timelessness of a work of art.”

“The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

“It is one of the perennial ironies of history that radicals are punished for saying in one generation what is commonplace in the next.”

“Humor is the prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.”

“Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”

“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is not a lack of intelligence, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

“The life of reason is not the only life for man, but it is the only life in which he can be fully and securely himself.”

“The arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious as the weather governs the state of mind in which they are best received.”

“The world is governed by opinion.”