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

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.