Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.