It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

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

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.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.