We Need History, Not To Tell Us

Education Is Not Sermonizing To Children Against Their Instincts And Pleasures, But Providing A Natural Continuity Between What They Feel And What They Can And Should Be.

Children Tend To Be Rather Better Observers Of Adults' Characters Than Adults Are Of Children's, Because Children Are So Dependent On Adults That It Is Very Much In Their Interest To Discover The Weaknesses Of Their Elders.

Commitment Is A Word Invented In Our Abstract Modernity To Signify The Absence Of Any Real Motives In The Soul For Moral Dedication.

Nietzsche Said The Newspaper Had Replaced The Prayer In The Life Of The Modern Bourgeois , Meaning That The Busy, The Cheap, The Ephemeral, Had Usurped All That Remained Of The Eternal In His Daily Life.

The Importance Of These [college] Years For An American Cannot Be Overestimated. They Are Civilization's Only Chance To Get To Him.