"[...] a genuine awareness of tradition makes us free and independent from the conservatism of those who claim to be i…"

"We can begin, like the Scholastic masters, with an objection: videtur quod non … "It seems not to be true that ..." A…"

""We work in order to be at leisure." […] Doesn't this statement appear almost immoral to the man or woman of the worl…"

"What happens when our eye sees a rose? What do we do when that happens? Our mind does something, to be sure, in the m…"

"Not only the Greeks in general — Aristotle no less than Plato — but the great medieval thinkers as well, all held tha…"

"[I]f knowing is work, exclusively work, then the one who knows, knows only the fruit of his own, subjective activity,…"

"We should consider for a moment how much the Christian understanding of life is based on the reality of "Grace"; let …"

"Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of …"

"All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due."

"Against the exclusiveness of the paradigm of work as activity, first of all, there is leisure as "non-activity" — an …"