“The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death”

“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators”

“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

“...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.”

“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”

“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”

“Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.”