Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The true object of human life is play.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.