An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

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

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

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.