Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech

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

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.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.