There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.