Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.