We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?