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

In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.

The hero can never be a relativist.

The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.