The Truly Great Books Are The Few

It Is Love Rather Than Sexual Lust Or Unbridled Sexuality If, In Addition To The Need Or Want Involved, There Is Also Some Impulse To Give Pleasure To The Persons Thus Loved And Not Merely To Use Them For Our Own Selfish Pleasure.

One Of The Embarrassing Problems For The Early Nineteenth-century Champions Of The Christian Faith Was That Not One Of The First Six Presidents Of The United States Was An Orthodox Christian.

The Materialist Assumption That Spiritual Substances Do Not Exist Is As Much An Act Of Faith As The Religious Belief In The Reality Of Angels.

Let Me Roughly Divide Books Into Those Which Compete With The Movies And Those With Which The Movies Cannot Compete. They Are The Books That Can Elevate Or Instruct. If They Are Fine Works Of Fiction, They Can Deepen Your Appreciation Of Human Life. If They Are Serious Works Of Nonfiction, They Can Inform Or Enlighten You.

The Best Protection Against Propaganda Of Any Sort Is The Recognition Of It For What It Is. Only Hidden And Undetected Oratory Is Really Insidious. What Reaches The Heart Without Going Through The Mind Is Likely To Bounce Back And Put The Mind Out Of Business. Propaganda Taken In That Way Is Like A Drug You Do Not Know You Are Swallowing. The Effect Is Mysterious; You Do Not Know Afterwards Why You Feel Or Think The Way You Do.