The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.