Quotes
Quotes about Age
Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens, And other Members of the Court, Manage the Babylonish sport.
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecyâwhen properly aged.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state? O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged!
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
