One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

The only consistent people are the dead

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.