Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.
No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
Jesus promised his disciples three things – that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.
Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.