“There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.”
“One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.”
“Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente.”
“Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.”
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch.But given the state of the world, is it wise?”
“... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.”
“Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.”