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- True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.…
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with…
- The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
- With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
- The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
- Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,…
- I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad…
- We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
- When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
- None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
- There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations…
- I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion…
- There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory…
- Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not…
- From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not…
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
- The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any…
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
- Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
- No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
- Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
- It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is…
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
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