The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.