So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceab...
Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand,...
A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to...
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more...
When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.
What men want is not knowledge but certainty.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.
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