Sublime

a capacity for states of primary unintegration brought forward into later life is a developmental necessity.

I want to argue a paradox that the myth asserts: that the origins, liveliness, and durability of cultures require that there be space for figures whose function is to uncover and disrupt the very things that cultures are based on.

A great error of postmodernism is the assumption that tradition and innovation cannot co-exist.

There is a saying that an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure. But that is only when one knows what to prevent.

a typically English attempt to restore a balance.

At the center of his analysis was the insistence that modern man, “like Macbeth,” had made an evil decision to trade allegiance to transcendent principles for present gain.