Half a truth is better than no politics. Votes: 14
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. Votes: 9
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Votes: 0
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. Votes: 0
New roads; new ruts. Votes: 0
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. Votes: 0
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. Votes: 0
A yawn is a silent shout. Votes: 0
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. Votes: 0
Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast. Votes: 0
I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. Votes: 0
Fairy tales are more than true ... Votes: 0
There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool. Votes: 0
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. Votes: 0
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better. Votes: 0
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Votes: 0
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. Votes: 0
Silence is the unbearable repartee. Votes: 0
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. Votes: 0
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. Votes: 0
Coincidences are spiritual puns. Votes: 0
...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. Votes: 0
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics. Votes: 0
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. Votes: 0
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. Votes: 0
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason Votes: 0
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy. Votes: 0
A naked moon stood in a naked sky. Votes: 0
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. Votes: 0
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits. Votes: 0
Adventure is the champagne of life. Votes: 0
All government is an ugly necessity. Votes: 0
All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. Votes: 0
And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely. Votes: 0
Art is the signature of man. Votes: 0
Atheism is too theological. Votes: 0
Coincidence is a spiritual pun. Votes: 0
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion. Votes: 0
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain Votes: 0
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. Votes: 0
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. Votes: 0
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent. Votes: 0
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. Votes: 0
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. Votes: 0
Humility is the mother of giants. Votes: 0
I am at one with my duality. Votes: 0
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. Votes: 0
I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule. Votes: 0
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. Votes: 0
I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me. Votes: 0
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so. Votes: 0
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Votes: 0
If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might. Votes: 0
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask. Votes: 0
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. Votes: 0
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile. Votes: 0
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world. Votes: 0
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black. Votes: 0
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies. Votes: 0
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad! Votes: 0
Man is at his tallest when he bows. Votes: 0
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. Votes: 0
Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Votes: 0
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace. Votes: 0
One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul. Votes: 0
Only poor men get hanged. Votes: 0
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. Votes: 0
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves. Votes: 0
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing. Votes: 0
Progress is the mother of problems. Votes: 0
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. Votes: 0
She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived. Votes: 0
Surprise is the secret of joy. Votes: 0
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. Votes: 0
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing. Votes: 0
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side. Votes: 0
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. Votes: 0
The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober' Votes: 0
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his. Votes: 0
The only object of liberty is life. Votes: 0
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. Votes: 0
The past is not what it was. Votes: 0
The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines. Votes: 0
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons. Votes: 0
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. Votes: 0
The supreme adventure is being BORN Votes: 0
The test of happiness is gratitude. Votes: 0
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. Votes: 0
The word good has many meanings... Votes: 0
There are no new ideas. Votes: 0
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers. Votes: 0
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. Votes: 0
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king. Votes: 0
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being. Votes: 0
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. Votes: 0
When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any. Votes: 0
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song. Votes: 0
Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. Votes: 0
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice. Votes: 0
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. Votes: 0
Nothing is certain by uncertainty. Votes: 0
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. Votes: 0
There is no bigot like the atheist. Votes: 0