If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth..

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether t….

In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never….

No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove….

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth ha….

I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything el….

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go..

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature ….

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through..

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection..

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wh….

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members..

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people..

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his pr….

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage..

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict….

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past..

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine..