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"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."
"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."
"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
"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."
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