Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

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

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.

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.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

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