Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was inner go. Rome’s life was now an imitation of life: a mere holding on. Security was the watchword – as if life knew any other stability than through constant change, or any form of security except through a constant willingness to take risks

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.