How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than th….

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….

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

Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the goo….

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

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to somethin….

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

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their….

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

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 "….

American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rule….

All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of i….

Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course ….

"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized ort….

"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore un….

There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealin….

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….

Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively d….

The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a mat….

I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed an….

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the….