Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

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

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

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.

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