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"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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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
"What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door."
"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."
"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."
"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
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"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."
"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
"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."
"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."
"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
"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."
"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."
"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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