I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

I do so hate to leave this world.