We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.
They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.
The philosopher may sometimes love the infinite; the poet always loves the finite. For him the great moment is not the creation of light, but the creation of the sun and moon.
The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it.
The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but ho...
People, if you have any prayers,Say prayers for me:And lay me under a Christian stoneIn that lost land I thought my own,To wait till the holy horn is blown,And all poor men are free.
Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of modern sophists, which will be anything like so startling as fulfilling any one of the old on...
Naturally, therefore, these people talk about 'a happy time coming'; 'the paradise of the future'; 'mankind freed from the bondage of vice and the bondage of virtue', and so on. And so also the men of...
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most int...
It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply...
I have my doubts about all this real value in mountaineering, in getting to the top of everything and overlooking everything. Satan was the most celebrated of Alpine guides, when he took Jesus to the...
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank peo...
You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
IF I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence, and especially of modern practical and experimental existence, the more I am convinced of the reali...
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.