In waking to the strangeness of the world, many of us become strangers in our own homes. But home is where we start and where we shall someday return. The path between has been marked out for us by a...
It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.
It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or China as a flash of rice-fields. But Arabia is not a whirl of sand and China is not a flas...
It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane....
It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a...
Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn revolutionise from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could tell you not only the system he would rebel against, but...
Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung;The world was very old indeed.
Man can hardly be defined, after the fashion of Carlyle, as an animal who makes tools; ants and beavers and many other animals make tools, in the sense that they make an apparatus. Man can be defined...
Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of political justice; they have wearied of waiting for it.
Mr. Blatchford attacks Christianity because he is mad on one Christian virtue: the merely mystical and almost irrational virtue of charity. He has a strange idea that he will make it easier to forgive...
My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.
Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate.
Of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men...
Oh, what's the good of talking about men? cried Mary impatiently; why, one might as well be a lady novelist or some horrid thing. There aren't any men. There are no such people. There's a man; and who...
On his last voyage he had seemed on the brink of success and had stood in the prow reciting a grand poem of his own composition to a dim blue promontory in which he recognized one of the capes of Gree...
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past
Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that the danger was not in man's environment, but in man.
Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist.
The Saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint is often a martyr; he is mistaken for a poison because he is an antidote.
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