When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.