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….

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itsel….

A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, t….

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego..

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

Neuter discourse is a false idol..

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory..

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind..

In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to th….

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

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great store….

Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is stri….

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again d….

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of know….

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

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay..

One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to t….

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothi….

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician..

The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to p….

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