The birth of all things is weak and tender; and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings. Essays

For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us. Book III

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. Never Give In!

Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything is to be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is anybody who will want to bid. Every speculative price-fixer who conscientiously directs attention to the significant march of modern philosophy, every Privatdocent, tutor, and student, every crofter and cottar goes further. Perhaps it would be untimely and ill-timed to ask them where they are going. Fear and Trembling