It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.