Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.