If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?