Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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.
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
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 worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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.
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.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
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.
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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.
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.
There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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