In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.