[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’