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

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.

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

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.

Hope is something that can never be taken from you unless you allow someone to take it. If you never lose hope, you will never truly be poor.

Personalities change when you least expect them

Kindness is the master key which opens the gates of inner bliss.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.