The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.