Education Is Not The Taming Or Domestication

Only When The True Ends Of Society Have Nothing To Do With The Sublime Does "culture" Become Necessary As A Veneer To Cover Over The Void. Culture Can At Best Appreciate The Monuments Of Earlier Faith; It Cannot Produce Them.

Law May Prescribe That The Male Nipples Be Made Equal To The Female Ones, But They Still Will Not Give Milk.

The First Discipline Modernity's Originators Imposed Upon Themselves Was That Of Self-restraint, Learning To Live With Vulgarity. Their High Expectations For Effectiveness Were Made Possible By Low Expectations Of What Was To Be.

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.

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