Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
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.
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
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.
Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to 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.
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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.
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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?
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.
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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