"No great, inspiring culture of the future can……" — Michael Novak
"No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing."
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Michael Novak
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35 Quotes by Michael Novak
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Granted that I must die, how shall I live?
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