The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

There's no sin but stupidity.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.