The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
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