It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the...
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale o...
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.
The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.
The happy people are those who are producing something.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.