Quotes to inspire and reflect

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother.

Laugh and the world laughs with you;

‘Shoot, if you must, this old grey head,

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed,

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Do I contradict myself?

Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?

Urge and urge and urge,

Camerado, this is no book,

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

I sing the body electric.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.

In all directions stretched the great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

I used to be Snow White … but I drifted.

Why don’t you come up sometime, and see me?

‘Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!’

Beulah, peel me a grape.

It’s not the men in my life that counts—it’s the life in my men.

I always say, keep a diary and some day it’ll keep you.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

I look upon all the world as my parish.

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness.

I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh, who shall convert me?

I design plain truth for plain people.

The Gospel of Christ knows of no religion but social; no holiness but social holiness.

Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

God damn you all: I told you so.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

The war that will end war.

The shape of things to come.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.