A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.