Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily