 Advertising is legalized lying. |
| There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. |
| We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. |
| The past is but the past of a beginning. |
| The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. |
| Human history in essence is the history of ideas. |
| Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. |
| The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. |
| Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. |
| Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. |
| I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. |
| What really matters is what you do with what you have. |
| A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. |
| Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. |
| The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? |
| In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. |
| If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. |
| Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. |
| There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. |
| Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. |
