Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?