An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace,...
I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circums...
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves i...
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Liberties aren't given, they are taken.
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of...
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.