The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.