Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

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

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.