There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

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 failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

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

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