We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

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

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.