It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.