We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.

A comprehended God is no God at all!

I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.