Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

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.

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

One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.

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

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.