The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

The light that colors the embraces the gods is the light that resides in your heart.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.