Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.