Nothing Is More Vain Than To Seek

To Be Free Is Of The Essence Of Every Intellectual Being.

The Aim Of Education Is To Guide Young Persons In The Process Through Which They Shape Themselves As Human Persons-armed With Knowledge, Strength Of Judgment, And Moral Virtues-while At The Same Time Conveying To Them The Spiritual Heritage Of The Nation And The Civilization In Which They Are Involved.

The Light Of Common Sense Is Fundamentally The Same Light As That Of Science, That Is To Say, The Natural Light Of The Intellect. But In Common Sense This Light Does Not Return Upon Itself By Critical Reflection, And Is Not Perfected By What We Shall Learn To Know As A Scientific Habit.

The Truth Of Practical Intellect Is Understood Not As Conformity To An Extramental Being But As Conformity To A Right Desire; The End Is No Longer To Know What Is, But To Bring Into Existence That Which Is Not Yet.

Art Is A Creative Effort Of Which The Wellsprings Lie In The Spirit, And Which Brings Us At Once The Most Intimate Self Of The Artist And The Secret Concurrences Which He Has Perceived In Things By Means Of A Vision Or Intuition All His Own, And Not To Be Expressed In Ideas And In Words-expressible Only In The Work Of Art.