The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
From Gilbert K. Chesterton
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, it would, if they had it.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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. It is arduous and it is rare.
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
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