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

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

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

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

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

Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.