If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing