The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.