The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.