“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.”

“As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.”

“Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.”

“We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross”

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.”

“But I know that in order to get to the end of a thing, one must start at the beginning.”