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

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

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

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.