We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.