Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.