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

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

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

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.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

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

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.