all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.