Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

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

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

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

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

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

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.