Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.