"El moderno llama “cambio” caminar más rápidamente por el mismo camino en la misma dirección. El mundo, en los últimos trescientos años, no ha cambiado sino en ese sentido. La simple propuesta de un verdadero cambio escandaliza y aterra al moderno. (p. 227)"

"In the Christian obsessed with "social justice" it isn't easy to discern whether charity is flourishing or faith is expiring."

"I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries."

"The criterion of "progress" between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill."

"History is a series of nights and days. Short days and protracted nights."

"There is an illiteracy of the soul that no diploma cures."

"No public cause deserves the unlimited allegiance of an intelligent man."

"To be unaware of the putrefaction of the modern world is a symptom of contagion by it."

"Intellectual vulgarity attracts voters like flies."

"Excess of politeness paralyzes; the lack of it brutalizes."

"God prefers an uncircumcised heart to a castrated mind."

"Agricultural prosperity ennobles; industrial prosperity vulgarizes."

"Adaptation to to the modern world requires sclerosis of sensibility and degradation of character."

"Truth is so subtle that it never inspires as much confidence as an erroneous thesis."

"The genuine reader is the one who reads for pleasure the books that others only study."

"Ideas of the left give birth to revolutions. Revolutions give birth to ideas of the right."

"Imitation, in the arts, is less harmful than rules."

"God is a nuisance for modern man."

"Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion."

"The modern soul is a lunar landscape."

"In the idiom of modern architecture nothing complicated can be said."

"The liturgy can only be spoken definitively in Latin. In a vulgar tongue it is vulgar."

"Imperatives, ethical or esthetic, should be negative. Positive imperatives increase imposture."

"The itch to be original is an affectation caused by a lack of talent."

"Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal."

"The wealthy man's sin isn't his wealth but the importance he attaches to it."

"There is nothing more common than transforming a duty which inconveniences us into an "ethical problem.""

"The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality."

"To be intelligent without ideas is the privilege of the artist."

"The number of votes which elect a ruler is not a measure of his legitimacy but of his mediocrity."

"The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels."

"The function of revolutions is to destroy the illusions that created them."

"Progress is hubris and nemesis fused together."

"To have opinions is the best way to escape the obligation of thinking."

"The racist is annoyed because he secretly suspects that the races are equal. The anti-racist is annoyed because he secretly suspects that they are not."

"A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead."

""To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute."