For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility

To forbid mistakes is to forbid learning.

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

My children have grown up around animals. They're not scared of them.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

No one goes through life with a whole heart.

I'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback.

But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.