The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.
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.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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.
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.
No man knows he is young while he is young.
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
The supreme adventure is being BORN
A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.
We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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