A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In ….

I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a continuous ….

Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-….

Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of their ….

Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of co….

Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. T….

Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolita….

Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me for human beings but….

Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and thei….

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentali….

Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable ….

I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will no….

Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to t….

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "….

Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perception….

The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately at….

Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all suc….

Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordin….

Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural po….

In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with….

The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to ….