If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.