The problem of modern man isn't to escape from one ideology to another, nor to escape from one formulation to find another; our problem is to live in the presence and in the attributes of reality. Then we will be able to put the picture together. This picture can only be the outcome of all the empathy given to many things observed in common. When many things are observed in common by the many who constitute a society, we will have reached a condition worth celebrating. (1)

(1) Frederic Sommer, The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics, cited in Morris Berman, Coming to Our Senses. My views are closer to the last chapter of Coming to Our Senses, where this is cited, than to his later works.