I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones—by faith alone. It strikes me a...
I’m a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.
It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn...
In the course of nearly a century of gusty living he had been broke many times, had several times been wealthier than he now was; he regarded both conditions as he did shifts in the weather, and never...
If you boys and girls had to sweat for your toys the way a newly born baby has to struggle to live you would be happier . . . and much richer. As it is, with some of you, I pity the poverty of your we...
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because its the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.But find me something that makes you laugh, a joke, anything--but something that...
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
I was thinking that it was regrettable that your tastes have grown canalized so young. There itwas, raining soup-and you were caught without a spoon. Even three days of what you wereoffered-urged on y...
I wanted us to get out of production. Jake Schmidt, our production shop master, was a good man; nevertheless I was forever being jerked out of a warm creative fog to straighten out bugs in production—...
I hate to tell you this, but you are just stupid and eager and sincere enough to make the kind of officer that men love to follow into some silly predicament.
I had no sympathy for him and still haven’t. That old saw about To understand all is to forgive all is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.
I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.
I am not a pacifist. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay—and claims a halo for his dishonesty.
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles t...
He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once.
He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their...
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
Gratitude’ is a euphemism for resentment. Resentment from most people I do not mind—but from pretty little girls it is distasteful to me.
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth stupid fumbling—oh, he conceded that man, a social animal, could not avoid having government, any more than an individual man could escape his...