Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.