When you read a book and internalise the views and philosophy of a thinker who is rich in substance but not fashionable, you have done something important to save yourself.

You gain a form of immunity against the pressure of the contemporary world—a world that feeds people shallow and sensational information in the name of thought, with the aim of creating herds whose desires and ideas resemble one another.

In this greatest struggle of life, literature and philosophy will be your powerful armour.

Joseph Sobran