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The Idea That Freedom Is Merely The Ability To Act Upon One's Whims Is Surely Very Thin And Hardly Begins To Capture The Complexities Of Human Existence; A Man Whose Appetite Is His Law Strikes Us Not As Liberated But Enslaved.

Equality Of Ugliness: If We Can't All Live In A Beautiful Place We Must All Live In An Ugly Place.

The Loss Of The Religious Understanding Of The Human Condition—that Man Is A Fallen Creature For Whom Virtue Is Necessary But Never Fully Attainable—is A Loss, Not A Gain, In True Sophistication. The Secular Substitute—the Belief In The Perfection Of Life On Earth By The Endless Extension Of A Choice Of Pleasures—is Not Merely Callow By Comparison But Much Less Realistic In Its Understanding Of Human Nature.

If The History Of The 20th Century Proved Anything, It Proved That However Bad Things Were, Human Ingenuity Could Usually Find A Way To Make Them Worse.

To Regret Religion Is To Regret Western Civilization.