The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

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.

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

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

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

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.

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.