You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.