The University (n.) is a community in which the intellect and the imagination have a continuously functional place, and so gives us a sense of what human life could be like if these qualities were always functional in it.
The University (n.) is a kind of social laboratory in which the most revolutionary conceptions may be valuable, not necessarily as programs for action, but as insights into the structure of society, nature, or the human mind.
The University (n.) is an attitude of detachment without withdrawal.
The University (n.) is continuously going on.
The University (n.) is difficult for students because they are socially and physically adults, while intellectually they are children.
The University (n.) is not teaching but a form of intellectualized preaching.
University (n.) is really a vision of society, a vision derived from the record of the best that humanity has done: the concepts of philosophy, the imagination of the arts, the accuracy and the discoveries of the sciences.
The University (n.) is senile, just as an individual without a memory is.
The University (n.) best fulfills its revolutionary function when it digs in its heels and does its traditional job in its traditionally retrograde, obscurantist, and reactionary way.
The University (n.) is, has always been, and must remain, a community where life can be experienced with greater intensity than anywhere else.
The University (n.) should inform the world, and not be informed by it.
The University (n.) preserves the memory of mankind, of mature man as distinct from the childishness immersed in the dissolving present or the senility immersed in the past.
The University (n.) is the main meaning and purpose of human life).
The University (n.) is the only genuine product of social concern.
The University (n.) is the powerhouse of civilization. As such, the centre of the university has to correspond to the actual centers of human knowledge.
The University (n.) is there to be useful to it. It does not help him to prepare for life: life will not stay around to be prepared for.
The University (n.) is to religion: the social institution that makes it possible. It teaches the culture of the past, and it tries to build up an educated public for the culture of the present.
The University (n.) is very near the centre of the idea of human community, and that our society stands or falls with it.
The University (n.) is where you come to learn that there are no answers, and that the advance of knowledge consists only in moving through a graded series of questions.