True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

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.

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.

I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.

When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.