Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.