The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

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.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

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.

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

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.