Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.