We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.