Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

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

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.

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.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

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.