Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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