The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.