I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.