The hero can never be a relativist.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print

One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.

Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The whole world is out of time!

The streets was basically my parents.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.