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" There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. "

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" The proper study of mankind is books. "

" Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. "

" An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. "

" People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. "

" The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. "

" Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. "

" What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. "

" Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. "

" There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. "

" What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. "

" Experience teaches only the teachable. "

" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "

" Every man's memory is his private literature. "

" Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? "

" God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. "

" Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. "

" Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. "

Good Intentions

" My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. "

" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "

" Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. "

" Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. "

" You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. "

" What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. "

" Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. "

" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "

" You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. "

" That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. "

" Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. "

" To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. "

" It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. "