A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.
You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Coincidence is a spiritual pun.
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.
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