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

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

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

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

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.

Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.