There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.