Free University Berlin

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    For I choose that my remembrances of him should be pleasing, affecting, religious. I will love him as a glorified friend, after the free way of friendship, and not pay him a stiff sign of respect, as men do to those whom they fear. A passage read from his discourses, a moving provocation to works like his, any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
    Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

    I got lost but look what I found.
    —Irving Berlin (1888–1989)