The South is the region that history has happened to.

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.