Half a truth is better than no politics.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.