History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

---

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

---

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

---

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

---

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

---

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

---

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

---

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.

---

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

---

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

---