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

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 is the movement from darkness to light.

Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.

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

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.