Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor.

Girls fell all over him. Guys bought him beers.... "Women eager to say they've been Zaned. You know there're T-shirts that say I've been ZANED.

Faith Alive is Faith in PracticeEVERYDAY

I should never have allowed you to kiss me." "Saints, Shona." Could she not see that he cared for her? 'Twas not as if he merely wanted beneath her skirts. She had stolen his heart.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.