The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.