Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.