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Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.


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Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.



Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.



The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.



The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.



The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.



Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.



To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.



Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.



There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.



As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.





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