“In general modern man has no solutions”

“A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.”

“Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.”

“There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.”

“The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.”

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”