Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

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

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

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

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?’

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.