University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

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?

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

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.