Today, The Degradation Of The Inner Life

If We Never Met Again In Our Lives I Should Feel That Somehow The Whole Adventure Of Existence Was Justified By My Having Met You.

The Way People In Democracies Think Of The Government As Something Different From Themselves Is A Real Handicap. And, Of Course, Sometimes The Government Confirms Their Opinion.

Every Transformation Of Humanity Has Rested Upon Deep Stirrings And Intuitions, Whose Rationalized Expression Takes The Form Of A New Picture Of The Cosmos And The Nature Of The Human.

Virtue Is Not A Chemical Product...it Is A Historic Product, Like Language And Literature; And This Means That If We Cease To Care About It, Cease To Cultivate It, Cease To Transmit Its Funded Values, A Large Part Of It Will Become Meaningless, Like A Dead Language To Which We Have Lost The Key.

Each Person Is A Temporary Focus Of Forces, Vitalities, And Values That Carry Back To An Immemorial Past And That Reach Forward Into An Unthinkable Future.