Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

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.

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.

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.