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| Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? | | Uncategorized | |
| Syllables govern the world. | | Words | |
| Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get | | Uncategorized | |
| Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage. | | Uncategorized | |
| That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. | | Uncategorized | |
| That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. | | Uncategorized | |
| The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it. | | Life; Religion; Wisdom | |
| The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it. | | Life; Religion; Wisdom | |
| The art of government is the organization of idolatry | | Government | |
| The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. | | Uncategorized | |
| The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. | | Uncategorized | |
| The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves | | Reform | |
| The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. | | Uncategorized | |
| The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off. | | Uncategorized | |
| The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player | | Uncategorized | |
| The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. | | Church; Humility | |
| The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death | | Uncategorized | |
| The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. | | Uncategorized | |
