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

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

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

Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.