All too often things which some people call “useful” are anything but useful in their results. “Progress” is healing a paralytic while depriving him of his sight. [GTUFS: LogicT, Truths and Errors Concerning Beauty]

“Progress” is most often but a transference, the exchange of one evil for another, otherwise our age would be perfect and sanctified. In the world of man, as it is in itself, it is scarcely possible to choose a good; one is always reduced to the choice of a lesser evil, and in order to determine which evil is the less, there is no alternative but to relate the question to a hierarchy of values derived from eternal realities, and that is exactly what “our age” never does. [GTUFS: LightAW, The Universality of Monasticism]