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"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
"As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul."
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"
"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."
"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."
"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
"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."
"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."
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