We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.