When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been.