Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down.

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.