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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

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