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

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.

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.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.