Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.