Princeton University Professor

Famous quotes containing the words princeton, university and/or professor:

    “The men—the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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

    “I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)