The Self Is The Modern Substitute For

Education Is The Movement From Darkness To Light.

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.

Various Kinds Of Self-forgetting, Usually Accompanied By Illusions And Myths, Make It Possible To Live Without The Intransigent Facing Of Death-in The Sense Of Always Thinking About It And What It Means For Life And The Things Dear In Life-which Is Characteristic Of A Serious Life.

The Spirit Is At Home, If Not Entirely Satisfied, In America.

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.