Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men..

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks..

Philosophy is everybody's business..

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent..

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the det….

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind..

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality..

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the stude….

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or….

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us t….

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sou….

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline..

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life..

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out o….

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wise….

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or….

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you..

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question..

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe….

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. Th….

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its….