The Spirit Is At Home, If Not

All Literature Up To Today Is Sexist. The Muses Never Sang To The Poets About Liberated Women. It's The Same Old Chanson From The Bible And Homer Through Joyce And Proust.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, And All The Others Knew They Were Giving Rights To Vulgarity. But In So Doing In Addition To Caring For Man's Well-being They Were Providing Rights For Themselves.

Education In Our Times Must Try To Find Whatever There Is In Students That Might Yearn For Completion, And To Reconstruct The Learning That Would Enable Them Autonomously To Seek That Completion.

Freedom Of The Mind Requires Not Only, Or Not Even Especially The Absence Of Legal Constraints But The Presence Of Alternative Thoughts.

Various Kinds Of Self-forgetting, Usually Accompanied By Illusions And Myths, Make It Possible To Live Without The Intransigent Facing Of Death-in The Sense Of Always Thinking About It And What It Means For Life And The Things Dear In Life-which Is Characteristic Of A Serious Life.