The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.' And how long is that going to take?' I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.' That could be a long time.' I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.

We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.