Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

You can fall in love but can't escape love alive.

In between trash and treasure.

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

All you can do is play how you know how to play.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.