Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

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

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.