Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

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.

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.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.