God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

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.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.""I shall either find away, or make one

Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart, ” she said finally.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

I'm supporting anything that we can do to find out how this stuff is happening.