[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.
The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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