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Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

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[Wither] knew that everything was lost. It is incredible how little this knowledge moved him. What had been in his far-off youth a merely aesthetic re...more

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The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is bl...more

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His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but n...more

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I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

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If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated. But, as it is, a cultural life will exist outside the Church wh...more

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more

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The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But ...more

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If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exis...more

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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

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...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I hav...more