He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting...
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was d...
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the questi...
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the tr...
I had thought of calling the next sort of superficial people the Idealists; but I think this implies a humility towards impersonal good they hardly show; so I call them the Autocrats. They are those w...
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
The true object of all human life is play.
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
But though the essential of the woman's task is universality, this does not, of course, prevent her from having one or two severe though largely wholesome prejudices. She has, on the whole, been more...