Research is the search of people who don’t know what they want.
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
You don’t want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
If Christianity should happen to be true – that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe – then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
The moderns do not realize modernity.
Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain.
There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.