Carl-Eric Tangen

“There were a host of people who viewed my rejection of National Socialism as exaggerated and who perceived my sharp tone as un-Austrian. Even many Austrians whose political views were relatively good found my stance too abrupt and not in keeping with Austrian sensibilities.”
― Dietrich von Hildebrand, My Battle Against Hitler: Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich

“The Liturgy is Christ praying.”
― Dietrich von Hildebrand, Liturgy and Personality

“Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.”
― Dietrich von Hildebrand, Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love: God's Plan for Love, Marriage, Intimacy, and the Family

“Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow