The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.