A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

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.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.