It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.