Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

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

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.