Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.