The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.
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