The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.