This moment contains all moments.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.