The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.