Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a...

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that...

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending it’s arranged the...

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future.HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think...

The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….

La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean...

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man’s spirit is Devil’s work.