Looking for God—or Heaven—by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare’s plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.
C.S. Lewis
From the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
G.K. Chesterton
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce
Beauty is an ultimate value — something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.
Roger Scruton
Everybody acts out a myth. But very few people know what their myth is. And you should know what your myth is because it might be a tragedy.
Carl Jung
I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, (…) that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.
Fyodor Dostoevsky