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

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

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