No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of econ….

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarras….

The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, qui….

The hero can never be a relativist..

The typical modern has the look of the hunted..

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, a….

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a ….

Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,….

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fea….

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one..

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make….

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuo….

The South is the region that history has happened to..

The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the ma….

It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to….

The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign chara….

Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is wi….

The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word….

Ideas have consequences..

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history..

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rh….