A Man Must Not Swallow More Beliefs

There Is Held To Be No Surer Test Of Civilization Than The Increase Per Head Of The Consumption Of Alcohol And Tobacco. Yet Alcohol And Tobacco Are Recognizable Poisons, So That Their Consumption Has Only To Be Carried Far Enough To Destroy Civilization Altogether.

Heroes Exterminate Each Other For The Benefit Of People Who Are Not Heroes.

Charm" — Which Means The Power To Effect Work Without Employing Brute Force — Is Indispensable To Women. Charm Is A Woman's Strength Just As Strength Is A Man's Charm.

Here, Where We Reach The Sphere Of Mathematics, We Are Among Processes Which Seem To Some The Most Inhuman Of All Human Activities And The Most Remote From Poetry. Yet It Is Here That The Artist Has The Fullest Scope Of His Imagination.

We Cannot Be Sure That We Ought Not To Regard The Most Criminal Country As That Which In Some Aspects Possesses The Highest Civilization.