Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

May God strengthen you.

No word of ignorance leaves no double thoughts on a plain page with a headline without extra lines of madness marked on it.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.

Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!