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- Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if…
- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of…
- We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
- I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
- The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more…
- All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who…
- The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent…
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
- 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 ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we…
- The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
- 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 real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The…
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess…
- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is…
- There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or…
- Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;…
- There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the…
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