Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.