The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.