As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

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.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

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