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

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

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.

Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.

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.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.