The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error. In similar style, I hold that I am dogmatic and right, while Mr. Shaw is dogmatic and wrong.
Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.
As for science and religion, the known and admitted facts are few and plain enough. All that the parsons say is unproved. All that the doctors say is disproved. That's the only difference between science and religion there's ever been, or will be.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
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