Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p87.
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
"Miracles" (1942), p. 25
God in the Dock (1970)
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Religions are for a day. They are the clouds. Humanity is the eternal blue. Religions are the waves of the sea. These waves depend upon the force and direction of the wind -- that is to say, of passion; but Humanity is the great sea. And so our religions change from day to day, and it is a blessed thing that they do. Why? Because we grow, and we are getting a little more civilized every day, -- and any man that is not willing to let another man express his opinion, is not a civilized man, and you know it. Any man that does not give to everybody else the rights he claims for himself, is not an honest man.
“The man who claims to have no need of philosophy is the one most apt to be fooled by it.”
A Reasonable Response: Answers to Tough Questions on God, Christianity, and the Bible (2013)
“A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible.”
Source: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 10 (p. 300)
“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”
Stanza 124
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
“A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 566
Context: A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah! what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Lews Therin Telamon
(9 November 2000)
Source: Winter's Heart
