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"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
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"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 completion."
"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
"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."
"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."
"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
"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."
"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?"
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