Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.