Reason Cannot Establish Values, And

As Western Nations Became More Prosperous, Leisure, Which Had Been Put Off For Several Centuries In Favor Of The Pursuit Of Property, The Means To Leisure, Finally Began To Be Of Primary Concern. But, In The Meantime, Any Notion Of The Serious Life Of Leisure, As Well As Men's Taste And Capacity To Live It, Had Disappeared.

Self-interest Is Hostile To The Common Good, But Enlightened Self-interest Is Not. And This Is The Best Key To The Meaning Of Enlightenment.

There Is No Real Teacher Who In Practise Does Not Believe In The Existence Of The Soul, Or In A Magic That Acts On It Through Speech.

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

Culture As Art Is The Peak Expression Of Man's Creativity, His Capacity To Break Out Of Nature's Narrow Bounds, And Hence Out Of The Degrading Interpretation Of Man In Modern Natural And Political Science.