Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

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

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

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.