The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.