Quotes by Merton, Thomas

We do not exist for ourselves... >>

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But >>

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the inter >>

Quotations about Colleges and Universities

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is t >>

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a frie >>

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to >>

I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

Merton, Thomas