These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

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.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

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.