But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something – war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it...
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.