We Need History, Not To Tell Us

Education Is The Movement From Darkness To Light.

Human Nature Must Not Be Altered In Order To Have A Problem-free World. Man Is Not Just A Problem-solving Being, As Behaviorists Would Wish Us To Believe, But A Problem-recognizing And -accepting Being.

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

Reason Cannot Establish Values, And Its Belief That It Can Is The Stupidest And Most Pernicious Illusion.

Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A Means To Avoid Testing Our Own Prejudices And Asking, For Example, Whether Men Are Really Equal Or Whether That Opinion Is Merely A Democratic Prejudice.