Reason Is Like An Open Secret That

When In Our Isolation We See Our Lives Seeping Away As A Mere Succession Of Moments, Tossed Meaninglessly About By Accidents And Overwhelming Events; When We Contemplate A History That Seems To Be At An End, Leaving Only Chaos Behind It, Then We Are Impelled To Raise Ourselves Above History.

Conflicts May Be The Sources Of Defeat, Lost Life And A Limitation Of Our Potentiality But They May Also Lead To Greater Depth Of Living And The Birth Of More Far-reaching Unities, Which Flourish In The Tensions That Engender Them.

The Great Philosophers And The Great Works Are Standards For The Selection Of What Is Essential. Everything That We Do In Studying The History Of Philosophy Ultimately Serves Their Better Understanding.

Everything Depends Therefore On Encountering Thought At Its Source. Such Thought Is The Reality Of Man's Being, Which Achieved Consciousness And Understanding Of Itself Through It.

Greatness Of Mind Becomes An Object Of Love Only When The Power At Work In It Itself Has A Noble Character