Principles of Liberty Part II

"The aim of higher education is wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes."
Robert Hutchins

"What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. That goes for you, for me, for everyone."
Shinichi Suzuki

"There can be no national greatness which does not rest upon the personal integrity of the people."
Calvin Coolidge

"Father, I knew, put an almost religious importance on education. He himself had had to stop school early to go to work in the watch shop and...had gone on to teach himself history, theology, and literature in five languages..."
Corrie ten Boom

"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy." Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

“The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the improvement of character.”
Will Durant

"In the course of [our] lives…truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Seven Sins, "Wealth without Work, Pleasure without Conscience, Science without Humanity, Knowledge without Character, Politics without Principle, Commerce without Morality and Worship without Sacrifice."
Mahatma Gandhi

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth…”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"...I am convinced that [quality group discussion] accomplishes more than any other form of teaching."
Jacques Barzun

"Few love to hear the sins they love to act." Pericles
William Shakespeare

"...improving one's mind or enlarging one's spirit is...more difficult than solving the problems of subsistence."
Mortimer J. Adler

"The process of civilization consists of the discovery by men of the laws of the universe, and of living in harmony with those laws."
Calvin Coolidge

"For as to our power...as it can only enlarge as our knowledge enlarges, so it is found to increase with it in such a manner that knowledge may justly be said to be power, natural knowledge, natural power, and moral knowledge, moral power."
George Turnbull

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
James Madison