A New Language Always Reflects A New Point Of View, And The Gradual Unconscious Popularization Of New Words, Or Of Old Words Used In New Ways, Is A Sure Sign Of A Profound Change In People's Articulation Of The World.
University Convention Submerges Nature. It Issues Licenses, And Hunting Without One Is Forbidden.
The Distinction Between The World Of Commerce And That Of "culture" Quickly Became The Distinction Between Infrastructure And Superstructure, With The Former Clearly Determining The Latter.
Continental Thinkers Have Been Obsessed With Bourgeois Man As Representing The Worst And Most Contemptible Failure Of Modernity, Which Must At All Costs Be Overcome. Nihilism In Its Most Palpable Sense Means That The Bourgeois Has Won, That The Future, All Foreseeable Futures, Belong To Him, That All Heights Above Him And All Depths Beneath Him Are Illusory And That Life Is Not Worth Living On These Terms.
Americans ... Do Not Naturally Apply The Term "bourgeois" To Themselves, Or To Anyone Else For That Matter. They Do Like To Call Themselves Middle Class, But That Does Not Carry With It Any Determinate Spiritual Content. ... The Term "middle Class" Does Not Have Any Of The Many Opposites That Bourgeois Has, Such As Aristocrat, Saint, Hero, Or Artist - All Good.
Locke Had Illegitimately Selected Those Parts Of Man He Needed For His Social Contract And Suppressed All The Rest, A Theoretically Unsatisfactory Procedure And A Practically Costly One. The Bourgeois Is The Measure Of The Price Paid, He Who Most Of All Cannot Afford To Look To His Real Self, Who Denies The Existence Of The Thinly Boarded-over Basement In Him, Who Is Most Made Over For The Purposes Of A Society That Does Not Even Promise Him Perfection Or Salvation But Merely Buys Him Off.
Various Kinds Of Self-forgetting, Usually Accompanied By Illusions And Myths, Make It Possible To Live Without The Intransigent Facing Of Death-in The Sense Of Always Thinking About It And What It Means For Life And The Things Dear In Life-which Is Characteristic Of A Serious Life.
The Expectation Of Substantive Unity Between Natural Science And Social Science Has Faded.... Gone Is The Cosmic Intention Of Placing Man In The Universe.
These Sociologists Who Talk To Facilely About The Sacred Are Like A Man Who Keeps A Toothless Old Circus Lion Around The House In Order To Experience The Thrills Of The Jungle.
The Students [of The 60's] Substituted Conspicuous Compassion For Their Parents' Conspicuous Consumption.
