The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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.