A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.