It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.