The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Copy Quote View & ShareFathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
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