"The university, in a society ruled by public opinion, was to have been an island of intellectual freedom where all vi…"

"The more rigorously criticism historicizes a work of art, in the sense of lodging it in the context of the moment of …"

"The academies and universities satisfied Socrates’ demand to be fed in the prytaneum."

"In academia, … an art historian, on being stirred to tears by the tenderness and serenity he detects in a work by a f…"

"There are certain inferior or second-rate minds, who seem only fit to become the receptacle, register, or storehouse …"

"What I admire in the ancient philosophers is their desire to make their lives conform to their writings, a trait whic…"

"Why don’t we do anything when we know about the perpetrators in our midst? So far, consequences for scientist-harasse…"

"From my childhood, I have been familiar with letters; and as I was given to believe that by their help a clear and ce…"

"Homo academicus is a herd animal."

"Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois …"