“Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.”
The Coming Religion (1910).
Source: Cold Days
“Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.”
The Coming Religion (1910).
“A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.”
"Planning for Wildlife" [1941]; Published in For the Health of the Land, J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle (eds.), 1999, p. 197.
1940s
“The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.”
Remark to a colleague after the first V-2 rocket hit London (September 1944), as quoted in Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now (1999) by Jonathan Allday, p. 85
“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”
June 10, 1999. Quoted in "New Armenian speaker emphasizes human factor" - BBC Archive.
Source: The Black Room (1975), p. 20
Context: All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not. It means that since they can't see much beyond their own little situation, they tend to vegetate. They need some immediate stimulus to keep them alert.
Vatican Nuncio in Holy Land appeals for dialogue to end Israel-Gaza conflict http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2014/07/21/vatican_nuncio_in_holy_land_appeals_for_dialogue_to_end_israel-gaza/en-1103193 (21 July 2014)
“Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly—no mistake.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)