Popularity: 4
Vote:   | A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Originality is undetected plagiarism. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | There are two kinds of fools: One says, "This is old therefore it is good." The other one says, "This is new therefore it is better." |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. |