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.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

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.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

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

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