If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.