Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

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

Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.