We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

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.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.