Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

Life is given us as a passion.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.