Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

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

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.

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

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.