"The U.S. economy seems to me a model neither for humanity nor for the West." --- Raymond Aron, in Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, 218.展开全文 原微博
The form of tyranny soemtimes described as "democratic despotism".. So true it is that socialism and centralization thrive on the same soil; they stand to each other as the cultivated to the wild species of a fruit. --Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, 163-4.展开全文 原微博
To come to an understanding both parties would have needed to recognize the fact that there is a difference in kind between a system of a purely religious order and one that is political, i.e., materialist, and the same principles could not hold good for both. -- Tocqueville, 151展开全文 原微博
Kant's complaint against the empiricist analysis is that it fails to account for the fact that judgments of taste demand everyone's assent..hence claim a universality and necessity, which presupposes some necessary and hence a priori principle. -- W.S. Pluhar, Trans. Intro. liii展开全文 原微博
