When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air;...
The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.
The great man will come when all of us are feeling great, not when all of us are feeling small. He will ride in at some splendid moment when we all feel that we could do without him.We are then able t...
The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.
Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural.
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
Tradition is only democracy extended through time.
[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely hap...
Thrift is poetic because it is creative.
Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many pe...
The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools...
The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.
Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages,...
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
And well may God with the serving-folkCast in His dreadful lot;Is not He too a servant,And is not He forgot?For was not God my gardenerAnd silent like a slave;That opened oaks on the uplandsOr thicket...