Few Great Men Would Have Got Past

The Problem Of Translation Is To Retreat To A Simpler Tenor Of One's Own Style And Creatively Adjust This To One's Author.

It Takes Application, A Fine Sense Of Value, And A Powerful Community-spirit For A People To Have Serious Leisure, And This Has Not Been The Genius Of The Americans.

When The Sciences Are Supreme, Average People Lose Their Feeling Of Causality.

Anarchism Is Grounded In A Rather Definite Social-psychological Hypothesis: That Forceful, Graceful And Intelligent Behaviour Occurs Only When There Is An Uncoerced And Direct Response To The Physical And Social Environment; That In Most Human Affairs, More Harm Than Good Results From Compulsion, Top-down Direction, Bureaucratic Planning, Pre-ordained Curricula, Jails, Conscription, States.

The Irony Is That In Our Decades, The Combination Of Rationalism, Asceticism, And Individualism (the So-called Protestant Ethic) Has Produced Precisely The System Of Boondoggling, Luxury-consumption, And Status.