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.

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

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

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

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

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.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.