The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.