To dignify means to show something as not being a mere instrument—to show that the dignified thing has a value in itself… There is a connection between dignifying and allowing something to stand forth into the True. This very concrete, aesthetic sense of authority is, I take it, what allows us to think properly—in a free way.

Lucas B. Carroll interviews D. C. Schindler on the crisis of authority

The most important role of the authority is, actually, to make truth possible and accessible to everyone. To allow things to stand out not only in their particular usefulness in this or that way, but indeed to show themselves as they are, to allow them to stand forth most fundamentally in their being.

Lucas B. Carroll interviews D. C. Schindler on the crisis of authority

You eliminate the symbolic presence of God in the world when you kill the king. Let me be clear that this does not mean that we need to have a king…But what we do need to have is a sense of political authority that includes a metaphysical-theological dimension, and whatever form that might take in the future.

Lucas B. Carroll interviews D. C. Schindler on the crisis of authority

[A]uthority is concerned with a sphere of existence that far exceeds the merely pragmatic order. It ultimately includes the order of thought, and, ultimately, the order of being simply.

Lucas B. Carroll interviews D. C. Schindler on the crisis of authority