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Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

The South is a region that history has happened to.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

Contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

Knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

Neuter discourse is a false idol.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

The hero can never be a relativist.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .