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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.
I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.
Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.
There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.