Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.