"We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget."
"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."
"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right."
"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."