"We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget."
"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."
"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified."
"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."