To become a Catholic is not to leave off thinking, but to learn how to think.
Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.
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...
What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.
Where does a wise man hide a pebble? And the tall man answered in a low voice: On the beach. The small man nodded, and after a short silence said: Where does a wise man hide a leaf? And the other answ...
Who are you?' he asked suddenly.I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother.'
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white...
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.
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...
[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read
And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,And he sang aloud his laws,Because of the joy of giants,The joy without a cause.
Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope wh...
He felt the full warmth of that pleasure from which the proud shut themselves out; the pleasure which not only goes with humiliation, but which almost is humiliation. Men who have escaped death by a h...
He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.
I cannot count the pebbles in the brook.Well hath He spoken: Swear not by thy head.Thou knowest not the hairs, though He, we read,writes that wild number in His own strange book.I cannot count the san...
I know too much, he said. That's what's the matter with me. That's what's the matter with all of us, and the whole show; we know too much. Too much about one another; too much about ourselves.
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