The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Love without conversation is impossible.

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.