Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust