I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life t...
Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise.
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.
Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom the...
Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Sur...
The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose; and the text of Scripture which he now most commonly quotes is, The Kingdom of heaven is within you. That text has been the stay and support of more Phar...
The devotee is entirely free to criticise; the fanatic can safely be a sceptic. Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
Your offer, he said, is far too idiotic to be declined.
Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside? You did not make it. You did not light it. Better men than you, men who could believe...
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
The little sins are sometimes harder to confess than the big ones—but that's why it's so important to confess them.
She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.
The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: thatpeople do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it mayor may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivablybe right t...
It needed ten times more courage to look after a leper than to fight for the crown of Sicily
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have dou...
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies aw...
You've got to understand one of the tricks of the modern mind, a tendency that most people obey without noticing it. In the village or suburb outside there's an inn with the sign of St. George and the...
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