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Nothing fails like success.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.