He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
Progress is the mother of all problems.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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