Occupation: Writer Birth: September 21, 1866 Death: August 13, 1946
We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill..
The past is but the past of a beginning..
The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate ut….
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion ove….
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from….
The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. ….
I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State..
Go away. I'm all right. [last words].
There are no social differences - till women come in..
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion.
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity ….
Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas..
'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'.
As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of me….
It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out..
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind..
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existenc….
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses..
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy ….
Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and go….
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the d….