Only a person fully in touch with the irrational temptations buried within him has a chance of becoming genuinely rational. - Arthur M. Melzer

The philosophic life—the radically personal effort to see life whole—can never be genuinely pursued as a collective enterprise of specialists.

In every age people are strongly tempted to rely upon the thinking and findings of others. And this can often seem like a useful shortcut. But if philosophy is to remain authentic and not degenerate into a “tradition,” then above all it must resist this dangerous temptation—the very temptation upon which modern progress-philosophy seeks to build.

One cannot philosophize in public any more than one can make love there.