All Literature Up To Today Is Sexist.

I Am Now Even More Persuaded Of The Urgent Need To Study Why Socrates Was Accused. The Dislike Of Philosophy Is Perennial, And The Seeds Of The Condemnation Of Socrates Are Present At All Times, Not In The Bosoms Of Pleasure-seekers, Who Don't Give A Damn, But In Those Of High-minded And Idealistic Persons Who Do Not Want To Submit Their Aspirations To Examination.

The Artist Is The Most Interesting Of All Phenomena, For He Represents Creativity, The Definition Of Man.

In America We Have Only The Bourgeoisie, And The Love Of The Heroic Is One Of The Few Counterpoises Available To Us. In Us The Contempt For The Heroic Is Only An Extension Of The Perversion Of The Democratic Principle That Denies Greatness And Wants Everyone To Feel Comfortable In His Skin Without Having To Suffer Unpleasant Comparisons. Students Have Not The Slightest Notion Of What An Achievement It Is To Free Oneself From Public Guidance And Find Resources For Guidance Within Oneself.

Continental Thinkers Have Been Obsessed With Bourgeois Man As Representing The Worst And Most Contemptible Failure Of Modernity, Which Must At All Costs Be Overcome. Nihilism In Its Most Palpable Sense Means That The Bourgeois Has Won, That The Future, All Foreseeable Futures, Belong To Him, That All Heights Above Him And All Depths Beneath Him Are Illusory And That Life Is Not Worth Living On These Terms.

Education Is Not Sermonizing To Children Against Their Instincts And Pleasures, But Providing A Natural Continuity Between What They Feel And What They Can And Should Be.