The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.