“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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.