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Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.