Sublime

So long as you progress fast enough it seems a matter of indifference to him whether you are progressing to the stars or the devil.

the fact that there is nothing so really practical and urgent as ideal philosophy.

When a newspaper posed the question, “What’s Wrong with the World?” the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: “Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton.” That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.

And what sort of unreason is it that seems reasonable to millions of educated Europeans through all the revolutions of some sixteen hundred years? People are not amused with a puzzle or a paradox or a mere muddle in the mind for all that time.

The first act of common sense is to recognise the difference between a cloud and a mountain. And I will affirm that nobody knows any of these things, in the sense that we all know of the existence of the Pyramids of Egypt.

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty.

First, a man reading the Gospel sayings would not find platitudes.

human enough to wander, human enough to wonder, but still sustained with that merry fatalism