The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
