He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Progress is the mother of problems.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.