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 sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

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.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

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.

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.