Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing..

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition..

Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am….

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind..

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real..

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent..

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it..

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots..

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate….

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest ….

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries..

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it..

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published..

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation..

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention..

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history..

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist..

Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsn….

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age..

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which….