Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.