Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.