It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on…

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Thirty was so strange for me. Ive really had to come to terms with the...

Thirty was so strange for me. Ive really had to come to terms with the...

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith...

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith...

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more...

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more...

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

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

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

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to...

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to...

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour,...

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour,...

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is...

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is...

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate...

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate...

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather...

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather...

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the...

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the...

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are...

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the...

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the...

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.