To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns.

No Perfect Solution Is, Not Merely In Practice, But In Principle, Possible In Human Affairs, And Any Determined Attempt To Produce It Is Likely To Lead To Suffering, Disillusionment And Failure.

The Most Passionate, Consistent, Extreme And Implacable Enemy Of The Enlightenment And ... All Forms Of Rationalism ... Was Johann Georg Hamann. His Influence, Direct And Indirect, Upon The Romantic Revolt Against Universalism And Scientific Method ... Was Considerable And Perhaps Crucial.

But To Manipulate Men, To Propel Them Toward Goals Which You-the Social Reformers-see, But They May Not, Is To Deny Their Human Essence, To Treat Them As Objects Without Wills Of Their Own, And Therefore To Degrade Them.

We Are Doomed To Choose And Every Choice May Entail Irreparable Loss.

When One Is Engaged In A Desperate Defense Of One's World And Its Values, Nothing Can Be Given Away, Any Breach In The Walls Might Be Fatal, Every Point Must Be Defended To The Death.