The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.