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- I propose with replace the practice of politics with theopolitics; that we reintegrate the human polis with the natural and cosmic polis — the city with the earth and the sky. Otherwise, the scope of political thought is too petty; of political action too narrow.
- Thought hides like a fox in a forest. Philosophers are the dogs that flush it out.
- A fallen world is a world devoted to money.
- When nature loses its aliveness, modernity begins.
- The loss of distinction between the hand and the tool the hand holds is the beginning of postmodernity.
- To early Christians celebrated sin as a sign of forgiveness. Once Christianity was institutionalized as the Church, and sin began to be criminalized, you had the foundations for the modern state. With confession, in particular, we see the beginnings of the surveillance state, the totalitarian state.
- To be hung is to die without touching the earth. In short, different modes of death, of execution, had different theological implications. Death contained multitudes of death. No longer — like everything else: the richness and variety of embodied experience (and the experience of disembodiment) has been homogenized. The modern fear of death is nothing like the medieval or pagan notion of deaths, plural. The still-medieval Hamlet would not kill his uncle during confession. The modern Hamlet would kill him without second thought.
