It seems to know that we strive to be powerful chiefly because we are afraid of what will happen to us without high rank: we risk being stripped of dignity, being patronized, lacking friends and having to spend our days in coarse and dispiriting surroundings. P33<\/p>\n
We have grown sick from being left to do as we please without sufficient wisdom to exploit our liberty. P77<\/p>\n
To judge by what they do rather than what they airily declaim, universities are in the business of turning out a majority of tightly focused professionals (lawyers, physicians, engineers) and a minority of culturally well-informed but ethically confused arts graduates aptly panicked about how they might remuneratively occupy the rest of their lives. P104<\/p>\n
that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life. P114<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It seems to know that we strive to be powerful chiefly because we are afraid of what will happen to us without high rank: we risk being stripped of dignity,<\/p>\n