All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.