Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

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

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.