The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.