I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.