...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner.

A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.