To Recognize That Some Of The Things

Reason Cannot Establish Values, And Its Belief That It Can Is The Stupidest And Most Pernicious Illusion.

The Distinction Between The World Of Commerce And That Of "culture" Quickly Became The Distinction Between Infrastructure And Superstructure, With The Former Clearly Determining The Latter.

The Most Important Function Of The University In An Age Of Reason Is To Protect Reason From Itself.

Education Is Not The Taming Or Domestication Of The Soul's Raw Passions - Not Suppressing Them Or Excising Them, Which Would Deprive The Soul Of Its Energy - But Forming And Informing Them As Art.

Openness, As Currently Conceived, Is A Way Of Making Surrender To Whatever Is Most Powerful, Or Worship Of Vulgar Success, Look Principled.