The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.