Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.