Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.