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

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

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.