The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare

Men can enjoy life under considerable limitations, if they can be sure of their limited enjoyments;

That is the one point, if I may put it so, on which God in return, is explicit to the point of violence. God says, in effect, that if there is one fine thing about the world, as far as men are concerned, it is that it cannot be explained.

The command of Christ is impossible, but it is not insane; it is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.

But that I, at any given moment, am not in a dream, is unproved and unprovable. That anything exists except myself is unproved and unprovable.