"Contemporary political ideologies are false in what they affirm and true in what they deny."

"Ritual is an instrument of the sacred. Every innovation is a profanation."

"Modern man destroys more when he builds than when he destroys."

"Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent."

"The writer who loves or hates is less persuasive than the one who loves and hates."

"All epochs exhibit the same vices, but not all show the same virtues. In every age there are hovels, but only in some…"

"The anger of imbeciles is less frightening than their benevolence."

"The modern tragedy is not the tragedy of reason defeated but of reason triumphant."

"In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he kn…"

"Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader's limited time is wasted in…"