Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.
Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.
To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.
Being holy. . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.