| Quotes |
Topic |
| Democracy | You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. |
| Democracy | At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . . |
| Education | To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. |
| Education | No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. |
| Education | Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. |
| Fish | When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things. |
| Journalism | Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. |
| Music | Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. |
| Mystery | The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. |
| Patriotism | "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." |
| Psychological Subjects | Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. |
| Psychological Subjects | It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it. |
| Religion | I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. |
| Religion | The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid. |
| Society | Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. |
| Society | Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. |
| Society | The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. |
| Society | It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. |
| Society | Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. |
| Wonders | The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. |
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