For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!