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

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts

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

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music

Education is the movement from darkness to light

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

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

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