Education Is The Movement From

The Humanities Are Like The Great Old Paris Flea Market Where, Amidst Masses Of Junk, People With A Good Eye Found Cast Away Treasures...they Are Like A Refugee Camp Where All The Geniuses Driven Out Of Their Jobs And Countries By Unfriendly Regimes Are Idling.

The First Discipline Modernity's Originators Imposed Upon Themselves Was That Of Self-restraint, Learning To Live With Vulgarity. Their High Expectations For Effectiveness Were Made Possible By Low Expectations Of What Was To Be.

Only When The True Ends Of Society Have Nothing To Do With The Sublime Does "culture" Become Necessary As A Veneer To Cover Over The Void. Culture Can At Best Appreciate The Monuments Of Earlier Faith; It Cannot Produce Them.

Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A Means To Avoid Testing Our Own Prejudices And Asking, For Example, Whether Men Are Really Equal Or Whether That Opinion Is Merely A Democratic Prejudice.

The Most Successful Tyranny Is Not The One That Uses Force To Assure Uniformity But The One That Removes The Awareness Of Other Possibilities, That Makes It Seem Inconceivable That Other Ways Are Viable, That Removes The Sense That There Is An Outside.