The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.