The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

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.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.