Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.