The Moment Is The Sole Reality.

Man Is Always Something More Than What He Knows Of Himself. He Is Not What He Is Simply Once And For All, But Is A Process; He Is Not Merely An Extant Life, But Is, Within That Life, Endowed With Possibilities Through The Freedom He Possesses To Make Of Himself What He Will By The Activities On Which He Decides.

The Socratic Teacher Turns His Students Away From Himself And Back Onto Themselves; He Hides In Paradoxes, Makes Himself Inaccessible. The Intimate Relationship Between Student And Teacher Here Is Not One Of Submission, But Of A Contest For Truth.

The 'public' Is A Phantom, The Phantom Of An Opinion Supposed To Exist In A Vast Number Of Persons Who Have No Effective Interrelation And Though The Opinion Is Not Effectively Present In The Units. Such An Opinion Is Spoken Of As 'public Opinion,' A Fiction Which Is Appealed To By Individuals And By Groups As Supporting Their Special Views. It Is Impalpable, Illusory, Transient; "'tis Here, 'tis There, 'tis Gone"; A Nullity Which Can Nevertheless For A Moment Endow The Multitude With Power To Uplift Or Destroy.

If Philosophy Is Practice, A Demand To Know The Manner In Which Its History Is To Be Studied Is Entailed: A Theoretical Attitude Toward It Becomes Real Only In The Living Appropriation Of Its Contents From The Texts.

Only As An Individual Can Man Become A Philosopher.