Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

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.

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.

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

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

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