Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are.
The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other – the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.
There nearly always is a method in madness.
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
If you’d take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can’t say. But it might.
Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?
If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don’t know it.
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.