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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
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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.
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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.
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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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.
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The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
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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.
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