A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

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

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