Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of hi….

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

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academ….

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….

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

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….

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise ….

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

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….

Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on makin….

Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refi….

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….

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse….

"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunti….

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking..

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/con….

People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but th….

I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contai….

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….