The great error of traditional proofs of the existence of god is that they try to take a symbolic truth for a literal truth, a truth of fact, and the… - Walter Terence Stace

But it is not an exaggeration to say that mystical experience is everywhere unitary in the same sense that everywhere aesthetic experience is unitary. British, American, German, Indian, Chinese, Japanese art are of course very different from one another. Yet they have one root in their basic experience of beauty.

The true religious doctrine is that the world is to be both denied and not to be denied.

The task of thought in our time is to replace the lost religious and metaphysical foundation of morals by a secular and naturalistic foundation.