I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

You can make anything by writing.

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.