A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning Quotes

“There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can be described as an argument about whether or not this connection is true.”
― James V. Schall, A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning

“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of dilatoriness but of eagerness, anticipation.”
― James V. Schall, A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning

“The truth will not only “make us free” but it is itself free. We all come in fact to know the same truth, otherwise we could not communicate at all with one another. This is why the modern-day denial of truth is, at the same time, a denial of real human communication and, consequently, in place of truth, an exhalation of power.”
― James V. Schall, A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning

“Self-discipline is the beginning of wisdom, not its end. When we have discovered the purpose for which self-discipline exists, we will, if we are sane, hardly recall anything about self-discipline because it has enabled us to become free to see and do so much else.”
― James V. Schall, A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning