Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims..

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning..

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swi….

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties..

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing proces….

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invent….

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises….

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I….

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. I….

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations..

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe..

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart..

Cynicism is humor in ill health..

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship..

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another..

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—t….

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser..

I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasio….

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses ha….

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning..