You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.