I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

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'.

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.