“It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.”

“In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.”

“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed. ”

“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such a premature Hell.”

“Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.”

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”