The Ascetic ideal (n.) is the opposite of what its worshippers believe: not life against life but an artifice for the preservation of life — a degenerating life fighting with death and against death.
The Ascetic ideal (n.) has man worship one part of himself as God, and for that he must diabolize the other.
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The Christian ideal (n.) speaks to the cowardices of weary souls — even the strongest have weary moments — as if trust, patience, resignation were desirable as such; the most sinister temptation man has faced.
The Christian ideal (n.) seduces most strongly those who love danger and adventure: in Saint Teresa it appears as an orgy of the will, a heroic quixotism.
The Christian ideal (n.) is not something that has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
Equality of opportunity (n.) ends at the starting line, which is where the argument begins.
Equality of opportunity (n.) gets praised loudest by people who already finished the race.
Equality of opportunity (n.) is a wise goal — All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
Equality of opportunity (n.) is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.