A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.