Malcolm Muggeridge Age Quotations

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.