'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

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

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.