The Sirens Sing Sotto Voce These Days,

An Education, Other Than Purely Professional Or Technical, Can Even Seem To Be An Impediment.

We Need History, Not To Tell Us What Happened Or To Explain The Past, But To Make The Past Alive So That It Can Explain Us And Make A Future Possible.

We Are Like Ignorant Shepherds Living On A Site Where Great Civilizations Once Flourished.

Self-interest Is Hostile To The Common Good, But Enlightened Self-interest Is Not. And This Is The Best Key To The Meaning Of Enlightenment.

Socrates' Way Of Life Is The Consequence Of His Recognition That We Can Know What It Is That We Do Not Know About The Most Important Things And That We Are By Nature Obliged To Seek That Knowledge.