The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.