[a]ny Notion Of The Serious Life Of

We Need History, Not To Tell Us What Happened Or To Explain The Past, But To Make The Past Alive So That It Can Explain Us And Make A Future Possible.

The Distinction Between Private And Public Undermines The Unity Of Spiritual Strength, Draining The Public Of The Transcendent Energies While Trivializing Them Because The Merely Private Life Provides No Proper Stage For Their Action.

Intellectuals Advertise Their Superiority To Political Practice But Are Absolutely In Its Thrall. It Is No Accident That Marxist Theory And Practice Use The Intellectuals As Tools And Keep Them In Brutal Subservience.

The Humanities Are Like The Great Old Paris Flea Market Where, Amidst Masses Of Junk, People With A Good Eye Found Cast Away Treasures...they Are Like A Refugee Camp Where All The Geniuses Driven Out Of Their Jobs And Countries By Unfriendly Regimes Are Idling.

The Expectation Of Substantive Unity Between Natural Science And Social Science Has Faded.... Gone Is The Cosmic Intention Of Placing Man In The Universe.