People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.