You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.