If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts. . . it is to teach them to think.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Cheeseburger in paradise!
What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health