You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

All time is unreedemable.