Reason Cannot Establish Values, And

There Is A Perennial And Unobtrusive View That Morality Consists In Such Things As Telling The Truth, Paying One's Debts, Respecting One's Parents And Doing No Voluntary Harm To Anyone. Those Are All Things Easy To Say And Hard To Do; They Do Not Attract Much Attention, And Win Little Honor In The World.

Commitment Is A Word Invented In Our Abstract Modernity To Signify The Absence Of Any Real Motives In The Soul For Moral Dedication.

The Distinction Between The World Of Commerce And That Of "culture" Quickly Became The Distinction Between Infrastructure And Superstructure, With The Former Clearly Determining The Latter.

Fathers And Mothers Have Lost The Idea That The Highest Aspiration They Might Have For Their Children Is For Them To Be Wise... Specialized Competence And Success Are All That They Can Imagine.

Most Of All I Admire Mozart's Capacity To Be Both Deep And Rational, A Combination Often Said To Be Impossible.