Sublime

The freedom to do what one intends, and not to do otherwise, is no less valuable than it ever was.

A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much. Philanthropy is not love for one’s fellow-man in the broadest sense.

philos can be conditional or even selfish.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer.