The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher..

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direc….

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth.

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love..

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people..

There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a ….

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolution….

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself..

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of hum….

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to….

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence..

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious..

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment..

That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau….

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God..

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason a….

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves..

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge..

The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense….

Power without authority is tyranny..

Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of hum….