“If my account of our moral condition is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.”
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.”
― Ideas Have Consequences
― Ideas Have Consequences
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
― The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
― The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
“The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture”
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
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