But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.