Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

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.

A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

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

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.