“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”
“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.”
“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self.”
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”