Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to ….

There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ….

The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have s….

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

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

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their app….

Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measur….

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in….

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

The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory over natur….

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

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of ….

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in….

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..

The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive ….

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

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the anc….

It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of norma….

To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably….

It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself ….

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