“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes.”

Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (pp. 19-20)

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IV : The Essence of Catholicism
Context: ... as the great Unitarian preacher Channing pointed out, that in France and Spain there are multitudes who have proceeded from rejecting Popery to absolute atheism, because "the fact is, that false and absurd doctrines, when exposed, have a natural tendency to beget skepticism in those who receive them without reflection. None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much." Here is, indeed, the terrible danger of believing too much. But no! the terrible danger comes from another quarter — from seeking to believe with the reason and not with the life.

Source: A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869), Chapter 5 (3rd edition p. 303)

Of The Pulpit (8)
Les Caractères (1688)

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

As quoted by J. E. Müller, Le Fauvisme, Paris, Hazan, 1956, p. 92

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians (1904), l. 16

A Testament (1957)

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019)