The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

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

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

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

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.