Authoring a PhD

The Consolations of Philosophy
(London: Penguin,
2000), pp. 58–9.
2. C. Wright Mills, 
The Sociological Imagination
(New York: Oxford
University Press, 1959), p. 243.
3. Michael Oakeshott, from his inaugural lecture at LSE, ‘Political
Education’, p. 15, quoted in W. J. M. Mackenzie, 
Explorations
in Government
(London: Macmillan, now Palgrave Macmillan,
1975), p. 24.
4. Ernest Dimnet, 
The Art of Thinking
(London: Cape, 1929), p. 151.
5. Thomas Gray, ‘Elegy in a country churchyard’:
Full many a rose is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
6. Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832). Colton was a British clergyman
who coined aphorisms now popular on US religious Web sites. This
quote was given to me by a student, and I have been unable to trace
it to a source.

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Chapter 2
Envisioning the thesis as a whole
1. W. B. Yeats included this line, attributed to ‘Old Play’, in the fron-
tispiece of his poetry volume 
Responsibilities
, first published in
1914. See W. B. Yeats, 
Collected Poems
(London: Vintage, 1992),
edited by Augustine Martine, p. 95.
2. Quoted in 
Great Writings of Goethe
, edited by Stephen Spender
(New York: Meridian, 1958), p. 272.
3. Quoted in A. A. Schuessler, 
A Logic of Expressive Choice
(Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 29.
4. Robert Nozick, 
The Nature of Rationality
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1993), p. 164.
5. G. K. Chesterton, an untraced quote from one of his less well
known ‘Father Brown’ stories.
6. Nozick, 
The Nature of Rationality
, p. 165.
7. John Stuart Mill, 
On Liberty
, Chapter 3, from John Stuart Mill,
Utilitarianism, Liberty and Representative Government
(London:
Dent, 1968), p. 123. Originally published 1859.
8. A. D. Sertillanges, 
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirits, Conditions and
Methods
(Dublin: Mercier Press, 1978), translated by Mary Ryan,
p. 145.
9. PhD regulations of London University, as printed in London
School of Economics and Political Science, 
Calendar 2001–2001
(London: London School of Economics, 2000), p. 228.
10. Quoted in Sertillanges, 
The Intellectual Life
, p. 173.
11. Arthur Schopenhauer’s 
Paralipomena
, quoted (vaguely) in 
E. Dimnet, 
The Art of Thinking
(London: Cape, 1929), p. 163.
12. Ivan Illich, 
Tools for Conviviality
(London: Fontana, 1973), p. 101.
13. Johanne Goethe, ‘
On Originality
’ from 
Great Writings of Goethe
,
edited by Stephen Spender (New York: Meridian, 1958), p. 45.
14. Quoted in Patrick Hughes and George Brecht, 
Vicious Circles and
Infinity: An Anthology of Paradoxes
(Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1978), p. 60.
15. Robert Oppenheimer, ‘A science of change’, reprinted in E. Blair
Bolles (ed.), 
Galileo’s Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science
Writing
(London: Abacus, 2000), p. 298–9.
16. Blaise Pascal, 
Pensées
(London: Dent, 1932), p. 106, Thought
number 395.
17. J. K. Galbraith, 
The Affluent Society
(Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1958), pp. 18–20. Galbraith uses the phrase ‘conventional wis-
dom’ to describe ‘ideas which are esteemed at any time for their
acceptability, and … predictability’.
18. Quoted in C. Rose and M. J. Nicoholl,