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Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

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Man … feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

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Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

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Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

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The complete man, then, is the lover added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

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The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

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The trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting.

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When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason.

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We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

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Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

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Now, with the general decay of religious faith, it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

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The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

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Those who based their lives on the unintelligence of sentimentality fight to save themselves with the unintelligence of brutality.

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We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

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In dialectic the student … will get training in thinking, whereas the best that he gets now is a vague admonition to think for himself.

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Practically all traditional distinctions, whether economic, moral, social, or aesthetic, are today under assault as founded on a prejudice.

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The aristocratic mind … is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

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We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

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Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

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The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

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Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal.

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Plato was disturbed by written discourse because … if an individual goes to it with a question in his mind, it always gives one unvarying answer.

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… contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

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In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

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Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

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The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

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Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

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Man created in the divine image, the protagonist of a great drama in which his soul was at stake, was replaced by man the wealth-seeking and –consuming animal.

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No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.

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The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

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