God is in the details.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.