The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.