History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes..

The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made dre….

When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue tha….

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not..

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo ….

If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a priori exclude the possibility that we are….

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto t….

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know..

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality..

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse..

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, ….

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes..

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer..

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust..

I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of….

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov..

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million..

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print..

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect..

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition..

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastro….