Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.