Every Age Is Blind To Its Own

Self-interest Is Hostile To The Common Good, But Enlightened Self-interest Is Not. And This Is The Best Key To The Meaning Of Enlightenment.

Education Is Not The Taming Or Domestication Of The Soul's Raw Passions - Not Suppressing Them Or Excising Them, Which Would Deprive The Soul Of Its Energy - But Forming And Informing Them As Art.

The Substance Of My Being Has Been Informed By The Books I Learned To Care For.

Professors Of Greek Forget Or Are Unaware That Thomas Aquinas, Who Did Not Know Greek, Was A Better Interpreter Of Aristotle Than Any Of Them Have Proved To Be, Not Only Because He Was Smarter But Because He Took Aristotle More Seriously.

Various Kinds Of Self-forgetting, Usually Accompanied By Illusions And Myths, Make It Possible To Live Without The Intransigent Facing Of Death-in The Sense Of Always Thinking About It And What It Means For Life And The Things Dear In Life-which Is Characteristic Of A Serious Life.