This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee.