It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.