The Real Is The Rational And The

To Make Abstractions Hold In Reality Is To Destroy Reality.

Quite Generally, The Familiar, Just Because It Is Familiar, Is Not Cognitively Understood. The Commonest Way In Which We Deceive Either Ourselves Or Others About Understanding Is By Assuming Something As Familiar, And Accepting It On That Account; With All Its Pros And Cons, Such Knowing Never Gets Anywhere, And It Knows Not Why.... The Analysis Of An Idea, As It Used To Be Carried Out, Was, In Fact, Nothing Else Than Ridding It Of The Form In Which It Had Become Familiar.

Impatience Asks For The Impossible, Wants To Reach The Goal Without The Means Of Getting There. The Length Of The Journey Has To Be Borne With, For Every Moment Is Necessary.

The True Courage Of Civilized Nations Is Readiness For Sacrifice In The Service Of The State, So That The Individual Counts As Only One Amongst Many. The Important Thing Here Is Not Personal Mettle But Aligning Oneself With The Universal.

When We Walk The Streets At Night In Safety, It Does Not Strike Us That This Might Be Otherwise. This Habit Of Feeling Safe Has Become Second Nature, And We Do Not Reflect On Just How This Is Due Solely To The Working Of Special Institutions. Commonplace Thinking Often Has The Impression That Force Holds The State Together, But In Fact Its Only Bond Is The Fundamental Sense Of Order Which Everybody Possesses.