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

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

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

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.