The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.
She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of her.
Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.
A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any...
I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemies. He was a wise man. And so he discovered that two enemies are better than one.
At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise o...
But it is clear that no political activity can be encouraged by saying that progress is natural and inevitable; that is not a reason for being active, but rather a reason for being lazy.
She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. Ine modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aim...
A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head...
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. You cannot fight without something to fight for. To love a thing without wishing to fight for it is not love at all; it is lust. It may be an a...
When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?
What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise,but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce...
What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that make...