The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.

While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.