If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
If Christianity should happen to be true – that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe – then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
The moderns do not realize modernity.
Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain.
There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.
Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
I am at one with my duality.
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.