Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

The 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.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go.

No man may make another free.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!

We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

Nice is different than good.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.