In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.