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

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

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?

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

It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.