No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of econ… - Richard M. Weaver

It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the subconscious level will do its kind of work as faithfully as the conscious does its kind.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

The eloquent Lysias, posing as a non-lover, had concealed designs upon Phaedrus, so that his fine speech was really a sheep’s clothing. Socrates discerned in him a “peculiar craftiness.” One must suspect the same today of many who ask us to place our faith in the neutrality of their discourse.