There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that anyone can decide this moment that he will never feel it anymore. That is not how things happen. I mean that every time it bobs its head up, day after day, year after year, all our lives long, we must hit it on the head. It is hard work, but the attempt is not impossible.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.