Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man’s essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one’s birthright of membership in the great human family.
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.
No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.
History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: ‘Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.’
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
Man’s true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.