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If the children already born each have only two children themselves…in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.
Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, Is there a play from Shaw this morning? and when she says, No, he will say, Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish. And that's your chance, my boy.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance…produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward…allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
