Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.