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?
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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.
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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.
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.
The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
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