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- And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man…
- I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up…
- The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;…
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,…
- 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…
- To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the…
- Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
- Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.…
- To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost…
- There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
- If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but…
- A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are…
- A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out…
- Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes…
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
- Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
- [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see…
- Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
- It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.…
- Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn…
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