The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

There is no right government except good government.

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.