The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.