You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am con….

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world….

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction..

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given ….

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action..

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow the….

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it..

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond c….

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activ….

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last..

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the ….

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance….

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves..

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise..

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany..

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise..

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance ….

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center o….

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo..

...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in J….

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be..