What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

Advertising is legalized lying.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.