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

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.

Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

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

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.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.