The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
A great novel is one that refuses to be forgotten.
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be considered as a mere chronological record of discoveries and errors. It is the history of the human spirit in its endeavor to understand itself and its relation to the universe.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.