... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.