Error Is Indeed Our Enemy, But It

The Utilitarian Behaves Sensibly In All That Is Required For Preservation But Never Takes Account Of The Fact That He Must Die... His Whole Life Is Absorbed In Avoiding Death, Which Is Inevitable, And Therefore He Might Be Thought To Be The Most Irrational Of Men, If Rationality Has Anything To Do With Understanding Ends Or Comprehending The Human Situation As Such.

The Distinction Between The World Of Commerce And That Of "culture" Quickly Became The Distinction Between Infrastructure And Superstructure, With The Former Clearly Determining The Latter.

A Good Education Would Be Devoted To Encouraging And Refining The Love Of The Beautiful, But A Pathologically Misguided Moralism Instead Turns Such Longing Into A Sin Against The High Goal Of Making Everyone Feel Good, Of Overcoming Nature In The Name Of Equality. ... Love Of The Beautiful May Be The Last And Finest Sacrifice To Radical Egalitarianism.

Human Nature Must Not Be Altered In Order To Have A Problem-free World. Man Is Not Just A Problem-solving Being, As Behaviorists Would Wish Us To Believe, But A Problem-recognizing And -accepting Being.

The Sirens Sing Sotto Voce These Days, And The Young Already Have Enough Wax In Their Ears To Pass Them By Without Danger.