A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

The annoyance you ignore today only gets worse tomorrow. Solve it now.

In the end a lie is a lie.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

I like having a routine, because everything else is so unpredictable.

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.