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

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

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

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.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

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

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