It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.