But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.