We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourse….

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answ….

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent..

Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each ca….

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land..

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God..

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in….

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man..

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm..

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair..