God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

We somehow believe that our point of view is superior, higher than those of the greatest minds either because our point of view is that of our time, and our time, being later than the time of the greatest minds, can be presumed to be superior to their times; or else because we believe that each the greatest minds was right from his point of view, but not, as he claims, simply right.

The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.