One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
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