“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”

“Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.”

“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 comple...”

“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers...of all men to the exten...”

“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.”