From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.