Vincent Massey

Quotes

• “It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.”
• “We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”
• “The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.”
• “Rational comprehension of the universe is not enough. We must call to our aid not merely reason, but the vision and the spiritual insight of the ages. These things we must seek.”
• “I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.”
• “We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.”

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