If you want to succeed at whist, either be a good whist-player, or play with marked cards. You may want a book about jumping; you may want a book about whist; you may want a book about cheating at whi...
I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about thebusiness, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass ofcommon men should settle each other's marriages between them; thequestion rema...
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences
For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my...
For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning Do it again to the sun; and every even...
Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.
But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby.
And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or the infinite; but, in his own larger language, a local habitation and a name.
Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.
What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
There was one special thing you promised me at the beginning of the affair, and which you have certainly given me by the end of it.
The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man fee...
Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a so...
One of the actual and certain consequences of the idea that all men are equal is immediately to produce very great men.
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
It is as if a man were asked, 'What is the use of a hammer?' and answered, 'To make hammers'; and when asked, 'And of those hammers, what is the use?' answered, 'To make hammers again'. Just as such a...