There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

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.

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.