The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

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.

According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

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.

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