Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
It is always the secure who are humble.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
The test of happiness is gratitude.
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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