Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.