Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as….

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft..

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its ha….

Wherever I sit is the head of the table..

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly cal….

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 ….

All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its ….

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings ….

The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the wor….

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk..

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a hal….

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be rea….

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English..

Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that….

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse..

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men ar….

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so,….

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achieveme….

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom..

[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That d….

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like smal….