Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice.
And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason...
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
The word good has many meanings...
We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
The true object of human life is play.