the classics
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.