A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

Are the values we hold dear and guide our lives by just social conventions, like driving on the right-hand versus left-hand side of the road? Or are they merely expressions of personal preference, like having a taste for certain foods? Or are they somehow valid and binding, independent of our opinion, and if they are objective in this way, what is their foundation?

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

You can fill a cup, but if you keep pouring, it's going to overflow. This is distinct from just being just filled. This is overflowing with the Spirit. True education doesn't come from the wisdom of the world, but by the guidance and the wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it