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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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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."
"You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it."
"What you believe, that is your truth, that you will attract and, for sure, that will manifest in your life."
"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
"Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth."
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"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."
"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?"
"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
"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."
"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
"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."
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