Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

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

The South is the region that history has happened to.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.