The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

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

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

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

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

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

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.