The Importance Of These [college]

Various Kinds Of Self-forgetting, Usually Accompanied By Illusions And Myths, Make It Possible To Live Without The Intransigent Facing Of Death-in The Sense Of Always Thinking About It And What It Means For Life And The Things Dear In Life-which Is Characteristic Of A Serious Life.

There Are Two Threats To Reason, The Opinion That One Knows The Truth About The Most Important Things And The Opinion That There Is No Truth About Them. Both Of These Opinions Are Fatal To Philosophy; The First Asserts That The Quest For Truth Is Unnecessary, While The Second Asserts That It Is Impossible. The Socratic Knowledge Of Ignorance, Which I Take To Be The Beginning Point Of All Philosophy, Defines The Sensible Middle Ground Between Two Extremes.

Error Is Indeed Our Enemy, But It Alone Points To The Truth And Therefore Deserves Our Respectful Treatment.

There Is No Real Education That Does Not Respond To Felt Need; Anything Else Acquired Is Trifling Display.

[rock And The Intellectual Left] Must Both Be Interpreted As Parts Of The Cultural Fabric Of Late Capitalism. Their Success Comes From The Bourgeois' Need To Feel That He Is Not Bourgeois.