Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

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

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

... life falls into place only with God.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.