The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. |
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. |
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth |
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. |
There are great industries of psychotherapy that address our difficulties in 'relationships' -- that pallid, pseudoscientific word the very timidity of which makes substantial attachments impossible. One has to have a tin ear to describe one's great love as a relationship. |
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech |
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative |
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. |
What a people bows before tell us what it is |