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

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

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

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

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.