Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Orthodoxy