Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.