Sublime

Detroit I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Ford, and it really was a pleasure. He is a man quite capable of views which I think silly to the point of insanity; but he is not the vulgar benevolent boss. It must be admitted that he is a millionaire; but he cannot really be convicted of being a philanthropist. He is not a man who merely wants to run pe

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But our modern educationists are trying to bring about a religious liberty without attempting to settle what is religion or what is liberty.

The one essential of an aristocracy is to be in advance of its age. That is, there must be something new known to a few. There must be a password; and it must always be a new password.

Mince, élégant, affectionnant à la manière américaine des cols amidonnés blancs sur des chemises à fines rayures, bon vivant, volontiers gastronome, amateur de londrès et de cocktails, fréquentant les bars anglais et se frottant volontiers au Tout-Paris, il affichait des idées avancées qu’il soutenait avec juste ce qu’il fallait de condescendance e

Leibniz, in his private thinking, is the best example of a philosopher who uses logic as a key to metaphysics. This type of philosophy begins with Parmenides, and is carried further in Plato’s use of the theory of ideas to prove various extra-logical propositions. Spinoza belongs to the same type, and so does Hegel. But none of these is so clear cu

He had found he could accept reproof from anybody who was not dead drunk and be no better for it, unless the discomfort involved was actually payment against outstanding debt. This thought may actually have comforted him, since debt can be reduced, unless it involves interest of some kind, which would be a way of understanding the steady accumulati

rhetor doing the work of a philosopher.” It might be more accurate to say that he was a critic doing the work of a prophet.