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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

The idea of a world in which we can only be human by destroying the Earth has got to be a way of thinking that can be eliminated.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

A man’s soul is so big that the world can never contain it.

Know not to revere human things too much.

The only thing that can save us is love.

Man is a paradox, a beast and a god, a wolf and a dove, a man and a woman.