But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

You cannot make men good by law.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.