It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
The ordinary is the divine.
Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.
All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.