Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Property

The De-eroticization Of The World, A Companion To Its Disenchantment ... Seems To Result From A Combination Of Causes Our Democratic Regime And Its Tendencies Toward Leveling And Self-protection, A Reductionist-materialist Science That Inevitably Interprets Eros As Sex, And The Atmosphere Generated By "the Death Of God" And Of The Subordinate God, Eros.

The Facile Economic And Psychological Debunking Of The Theoretical Life Cannot Do Away With Its Irreducible Beauties.

Law May Prescribe That The Male Nipples Be Made Equal To The Female Ones, But They Still Will Not Give Milk.

The First Discipline Modernity's Originators Imposed Upon Themselves Was That Of Self-restraint, Learning To Live With Vulgarity. Their High Expectations For Effectiveness Were Made Possible By Low Expectations Of What Was To Be.

There Is A Perennial And Unobtrusive View That Morality Consists In Such Things As Telling The Truth, Paying One's Debts, Respecting One's Parents And Doing No Voluntary Harm To Anyone. Those Are All Things Easy To Say And Hard To Do; They Do Not Attract Much Attention, And Win Little Honor In The World.