There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.