Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.