Different first principles make debate impossible.
Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the terrible and tingling atmosphere of something which is too good to be told.
We’re all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.
For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.
Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.
The men signed of the cross of Christ go gaily in the dark.
It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.
In most commercial ways we’re a pretty forward country. In these moral ways we’re content to be a pretty backward country.
To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer: “What the devil else should we talk for? Ineffectualness?
Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.
Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.
Of course sane people always thought the aim of marriage was the procreation of children to the glory of God or according to the plan of Nature;.
Where does a wise man hide a pebble?” And the tall man answered in a low voice: “On the beach.” The small man nodded, and after a short silence said: “Where does a wise man hide a leaf?” And the other answered: “In the forest.
We ought not give ourselves the benefit of the doubt if we plan on doubting everything else.
The old idealistic republicans used to found democracy on the idea that all men were equally intelligent. Believe me, the sane and enduring democracy is founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic.
When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.