The Spirit Is At Home, If Not

There Is One Thing A Professor Can Be Absolutely Certain Of: Almost Every Student Entering The University Believes, Or Says He Believes, That Truth Is Relative.

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.

An Education, Other Than Purely Professional Or Technical, Can Even Seem To Be An Impediment.

As Soon As Tradition Has Come To Be Recognized As Tradition, It Is Dead.

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.