Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.