It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

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."

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.