...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.