It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.