Now is the age of anxiety.

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.

The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.