Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but there are no good characters in opposition to evil. Evil is arguable, but good is not. Therefore the Devil always wins the argument.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.