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Sycophancy Toward Those Who Hold Power Is A Fact In Every Regime, And Especially In A Democracy, Where, Unlike Tyranny, There Is An Accepted Principle Of Legitimacy That Breaks The Inner Will To Resist.... Flattery Of The People And Incapacity To Resist Public Opinion Are The Democratic Vices, Particularly Among Writers, Artists, Journalists And Anyone Else Who Is Dependent On An Audience.

Social Science And Humanities ... Have A Mutual Contempt For One Another, The Former Looking Down On The Latter As Unscientific, The Latter Regarding The Former As Philistine. ... The Difference Comes Down To The Fact That Social Science Really Wants To Be Predictive, Meaning That Man Is Predictable, While The Humanities Say That He Is Not.

There Is A Perennial And Unobtrusive View That Morality Consists In Such Things As Telling The Truth, Paying One's Debts, Respecting One's Parents And Doing No Voluntary Harm To Anyone. Those Are All Things Easy To Say And Hard To Do; They Do Not Attract Much Attention, And Win Little Honor In The World.

The Most Important Function Of The University In An Age Of Reason Is To Protect Reason From Itself.

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.