Saturday, March 31, 2012

Aphorisms

1. No one expects aristocratic virtues from a laborer. In America we all define ourselves as laborers so that no one will ever expect aristocratic virtues from us.

2. To understand the nature of truth, one has to understand the knower as well as the known. There is no deep philosophy without psychology. And in order to understand the psyche, one has to understand the genealogy of its ideas. There is no deep psychology without history.

3. Virtue is to the psychologist as plumage to the ornithologist, or blossoms to the botanist. When the peacock spreads his tail, we appreciate its beauty. But at the same time we know it was contrived by nature merely as a testament to health.

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