Dream in a pragmatic way.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.