 It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. |
| The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. |
| Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. |
| Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. |
| I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. |
| Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. |
| Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. |
| Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. |
| Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. |
| You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. |
| With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. |
| Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. |
| I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. Topics: Christianity |
| We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. |
| Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Topics: Courage |
| A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. |
| If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. |
| Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. |
| If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. |
| An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. |
