There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.