philosophy Quotes

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.