You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.