Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, a….

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. T….

The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the ma….

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around..

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death..

Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind whi….

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarras….

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress..

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corr….

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

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific object….

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 ….

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance ar….

It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the sub….

The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, qui….

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one..