Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

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Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.

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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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