[Y]ou didn't need a jailor, she contended, for a domesticated lamb tied up with pink ribbon. This was not an animal to be controlled—it was an animal to be, at the most, educated. She admitted accordingly that she was educative—which Maggie was so aware that she herself, inevitably, wasn't; so it came round to being true that what she was most in charge of was his mere intelligence.

the mental nerve, the mental region

One of the instructions given by experienced aviators to pupils, and for which they insist upon implicit obeyance, is: If your machine gets more than 30 feet high, or comes closer to the ground than 6 feet, descend at once.

Due to pluralism and conflicts within the good itself, such perfection, for Berlin, is not possible. A compromise does not brin us closer to a higher telos in history.