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| Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder | | Kindness | |
| It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public. | | Uncategorized | |
| It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. | | Uncategorized | |
| It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. | | Uncategorized | |
| Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in the most appropriate kind of good doing. But good doing does not of itself result in Good Being. We can be virtuous without knowing who in fact we are. The beings who are merely good are not Good Beings; they are just pillars of society. | | Philosophy | |
| Lady Capricorn, he understood, was still keeping open bed. | | Uncategorized | |
| Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. | | Uncategorized | |
| Little boys may be an intolerable nuisance; but when they are not there we regret them, we find ourselves homesick for their very intolerableness | | Uncategorized | |
| Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. | | Uncategorized | |
| Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. | | Intelligence | |
| Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. | | World | |
| Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty. | | Uncategorized | |
| Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted | | Men | |
| Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. | | Speech | |
| Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. | | Ignorance | |
| Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. | | Uncategorized | |
| Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. | | Family; Fathers | |
