The Self Is The Modern Substitute For

A Serious Life Means Being Fully Aware Of The Alternatives, Thinking About Them With All The Intensity One Brings To Bear On Life-and-death Questions, In Full Recognition That Every Choice Is A Great Risk With Necessary Consequences That Are Hard To Bear.

Culture As Art Is The Peak Expression Of Man's Creativity, His Capacity To Break Out Of Nature's Narrow Bounds, And Hence Out Of The Degrading Interpretation Of Man In Modern Natural And Political Science.

Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Property Were Just What Aristotle Did Not Talk About. They Are The Conditions Of Happiness; But The Essence Of Happiness, According To Aristotle, Is Virtue. So The Moderns Decided To Deal With The Conditions And To Let Happiness Take Care Of Itself.

Never Did I Think That The University Was Properly Ministerial To The Society Around It. Rather I Thought And Think That Society Is Ministerial To The University, And I Bless A Society That Tolerates And Supports An Eternal Childhood For Some, A Childhood Whose Playfulness Can In Turn Be A Blessing To Society.

The Failure To Read Good Books Both Enfeebles The Vision And Strengthens Our Most Fatal Tendency - The Belief That The Here And Now Is All There Is.