To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.