Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.