It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.