Status Updates From A Preface to Politics

Crises are extremely important as symptoms, milestones, and as instruments. It is simply that the reality of a revolution is not in a political decree or scare head of the newspaper, but in the experiences, feelings, habits, myriads of men.

The history of the world is full of great myths have had the most concrete results. Myths are to be judged by their ability to express aspiration.

The original genius sees the dynamic first, finds reasons afterwards.

This is my first experience with Walter Lipman. I was in awe of his authority, amazed by his ability to trace currents of thought and action from history through his day. Then I realized he wrote this book barely out of college. There was something right about the prep school and Iby League education that prepared these guys as masters of the universe at the dawn of the American century.

The devil can use the public conscience of his time.

"We grow into a new point of view, only afterwards, looking back, do we see the landmarks of our progress."

This is true and profound, but it doesn't speak for Goodreads, where progress is easy to track while it is going on.

All philosophy is in the language of particular individuals.