Status Updates From The Prison Meditations of F...

Man has permanent need of supernatural power and strength. If his communication with the divine is stopped he begins to have strange dreams and set up false gods—success, people, new orders and so on.

Learning and prayer have little in common. It was so then and it is still so today. Learning is besotted and bemused by the brilliance of its own ideas and has an overweeningly high opinion of its own interpretation of the world’s affairs. ... Western thought is inordinately proud of having “grown up” in the last century. It considers itself completely adult and self-possessed.