Ideas shape the course of history.

The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [H…

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

There was an attraction at first that Mr Baldwin should not be clever. But when he forever sentimentalises about his own stupidity, the charm is broken.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.