To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not..

A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions….

Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurp….

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it ….