The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .