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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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...

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a...

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a...

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be...

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be...

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it...

What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it...

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...

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...

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

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

You cant get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to...

You cant get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to...

Its so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Its so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All...

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All...

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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...

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an...

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an...

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it...

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it...

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 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...

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...

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by...

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by...

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to...

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to...