Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

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

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.