Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.