philosophy Quotes

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.