Occupation: Writer Birth: February 6, 1879 Death: July 27, 1944
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thr….
What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp..
It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face..
The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. ….
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth..
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method..
Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?.
... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two ve….
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical..
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and th….
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour t….
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, ….
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically..
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season..
On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate….
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done dest….
For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement..
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary..
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the….
Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin..