...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

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

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