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.

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

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

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

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.