All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though