The direction in which to look for the patrician is always upwards. This is because his nature is to aspire, to rise always higher—not necessarily to… - R. W. K. Paterson

Sociologists, economists, and anthropologists, who notoriously decline to distinguish between the value judgements men make and the moral realities about which men make these judgments, are occupationally prone to treat all value judgements, however sharply opposed, as if they were of equal merit.

The version of reality a man adopts will depend largely on his values. … It is therefore possible for a learned man, who has conscientiously acquired a vast, carefully organized, and scrupulously representative mass of historical, sociological, and psychological knowledge, to be nevertheless disastrously wrong about its human meaning.

We want to know not merely what men have been, even the best men of their day, but what men can and ought to be.