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

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.