If the great paradox of Christianity means anything it means this- that we must take the crown in our hands, and go hunting in dry places and dark corners of the earth until we find the one man who fe...
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.
Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the...
Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can l...
There nearly always is a method in madness.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are —...
It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity, with their vast mass of idle books and idle words, have neve...
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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...
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great...
What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.
If ever I murdered somebody, he added quite simply, I dare say it might be an Optimist.
For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pr...
We must have several word-signs, said Syme seriously -- words that we are likely to want, fine shades of meaning. My favourite word is 'coeval.' What's yours?Do stop playing the goat, said the Profess...
No man knows he is young while he is young.
For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.
Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.
Fiction means the common things as seen by the uncommon people. Fairy tales mean the uncommon things as seen by the common people.
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an...
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