Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.