What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.