Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.