The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

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.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

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.

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

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.