The Underlying Assumption That Human Nature Is

No Perfect Solution Is, Not Merely In Practice, But In Principle, Possible In Human Affairs, And Any Determined Attempt To Produce It Is Likely To Lead To Suffering, Disillusionment And Failure.

Conformities Are Called For Much More Eagerly Today Than Yesterday... Skeptics, Liberals, Individuals With A Taste For Private Life And Their Own Inner Standards Of Behavior, Are Objects Of Fear And Derision And Targets Of Persecution For Either Side... In The Great Ideological Wars Of Our Time.

Philosophers Are Adults Who Persist In Asking Childish Questions.

We Are Doomed To Choose And Every Choice May Entail Irreparable Loss.

The Very Desire For Guarantees That Our Values Are Eternal And Secure In Some Objective Heaven Is Perhaps Only A Craving For The Certainties Of Childhood Or The Absolute Values Of Our Primitive Past.