Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.