“Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be...”
0 likes
Author detail
This author page remains available for legacy URL compatibility, including alias-backed slug support.
Quotes
Showing 181-200 of 311
“Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be...”
0 likes
“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”
0 likes
“By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?”
0 likes
“Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.”
“The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.”
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is im...”
0 likes
“The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.”
“By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection ag...”
“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity”
“No people find each other more absurd than lovers”
“But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.”
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
0 likes
“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling....”
0 likes
“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, who...”
0 likes
“The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they...”
0 likes
“Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little...”
0 likes
“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing throu...”
“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
0 likes
“Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.”
“I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lo...”