Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .