To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.