Capitalism Has Been One Of The Most

In Acute Suffering The Need For Meaning Is As Strong Or Stronger Than The Need For Happiness.

The Negative Side To Globalization Is That It Wipes Out Entire Economic Systems And In Doing So Wipes Out The Accompanying Culture

He Who Sups With The Devil Had Better Have A Long Spoon. The Devilry Of Modernity Has Its Own Magic: The [believer] Who Sups With It Will Find His Spoon Getting Shorter And Shorter--until That Last Supper In Which He Is Left Alone At The Table, With No Spoon At All And With An Empty Plate. The Devil, One May Guess, Will By Then Have Gone Away To More Interesting Company.

The Past Is Malleable And Flexible, Changing As Our Recollection Interprets And Re-explains What Has Happened.

Religion Is The Human Attitude Towards A Sacred Order That Includes Within It All Being-human Or Otherwise-i.e., Belief In A Cosmos, The Meaning Of Which Both Includes And Transcends Man.