Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.