art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.