The Spirit Is At Home, If Not

Locke Had Illegitimately Selected Those Parts Of Man He Needed For His Social Contract And Suppressed All The Rest, A Theoretically Unsatisfactory Procedure And A Practically Costly One. The Bourgeois Is The Measure Of The Price Paid, He Who Most Of All Cannot Afford To Look To His Real Self, Who Denies The Existence Of The Thinly Boarded-over Basement In Him, Who Is Most Made Over For The Purposes Of A Society That Does Not Even Promise Him Perfection Or Salvation But Merely Buys Him Off.

Socrates' Way Of Life Is The Consequence Of His Recognition That We Can Know What It Is That We Do Not Know About The Most Important Things And That We Are By Nature Obliged To Seek That Knowledge.

Nietzsche Said The Newspaper Had Replaced The Prayer In The Life Of The Modern Bourgeois , Meaning That The Busy, The Cheap, The Ephemeral, Had Usurped All That Remained Of The Eternal In His Daily Life.

The Importance Of These [college] Years For An American Cannot Be Overestimated. They Are Civilization's Only Chance To Get To Him.

To Recognize That Some Of The Things Our Culture Believes Are Not True Imposes On Us The Duty Of Finding Out Which Are True And Which Are Not.