Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.