A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.