Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him..

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true..

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice..

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no o….

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic..

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men..

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done..

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it..

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you ….

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Te….

Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexac….

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess..

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery..

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians….

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie..

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own..

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything..

If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for ….

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on….