One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.