Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.