To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns.

Conformities Are Called For Much More Eagerly Today Than Yesterday... Skeptics, Liberals, Individuals With A Taste For Private Life And Their Own Inner Standards Of Behavior, Are Objects Of Fear And Derision And Targets Of Persecution For Either Side... In The Great Ideological Wars Of Our Time.

Injustice, Poverty, Slavery, Ignorance - These May Be Cured By Reform Or Revolution. But Men Do Not Live Only By Fighting Evils. They Live By Positive Goals, Individual And Collective, A Vast Variety Of Them, Seldom Predictable, At Times Incompatible.

Only Barbarians Are Not Curious About Where They Come From, How They Came To Be Where They Are, Where They Appear To Be Going, Whether They Wish To Go There, And If So, Why, And If Not, Why Not.

The History Of Society Is The History Of The Inventive Labors That Man Alter Man, Alter His Desires, Habits, Outlook, Relationships Both To Other Men And To Physical Nature, With Which Man Is In Perpetual Physical And Technological Metabolism.

Philosophers Are Adults Who Persist In Asking Childish Questions.