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.

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

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.

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