Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

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

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