To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.