If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.