Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Frankel

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American philosopher Charles Frankel.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Charles Frankel was an American philosopher, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, professor and founding director of the National Humanities Center.

American - Philosopher | December 13, 1917 - May 10, 1979

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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

Charles Frankel

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

Charles Frankel

The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.

Charles Frankel

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

Charles Frankel