I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel t...
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
All new news is old news happening to new people
Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.