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.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

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.

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.