It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his mo...
Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and cease The Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire: Lest we forget that we were born divine, Now tangled in red battle’s animal net, Mu...
A society which is predominantly Christian will propagate Christianity: One which is not, will not. We have, in the long run, little either to hope or to fear from government.
The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good, to do something to us or make us something. Hence the new name "leaders" for those who were once "rulers". We are left their subjects within their wards, pupils, or ...
We are defending Christianity; not "my religion". When we mention our personal opinions we must always make quite clear the difference between them and the Faith itself.
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.
For Pride is spiritual cancer:it eats up the very possibility of love, contentment or even commonsense.
A Pagan is a man eminently convertible to Christianity. The post-Christian man differs from him as much as a divorcee differs from a virgin.
The first in fatal charm of national repentance is the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing – but, first, of denouncing – the conduct of others.
The command Be ye perfect is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. He said (in the Bible) that we were 'gods' and He is going to make good His words. If we let ...
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
Even if it is a vice to read science fiction, those who cannot understand the very temptation to that vice will not be likely to tell us anything of value about it.
No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish.
While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.
You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting t...
As a result we are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist -- making the role of the eye in sexuality more and more important and at the same time making its demands more and more impossible.
