Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--