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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority o...

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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer.... Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, bu...

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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. E...

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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

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Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where...

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Cynical realism—it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a com...

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