I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.