I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.