It Is Not Permissible To

Originality Usually Amounts Only To Plagiarizing Something Unfamiliar.

The Past Is Discredited Because It Is Not Modern. Not To Be Modern Is The Great Sin. So, Perhaps, It Is. But Every One Has, In His Day, Been Modern. And Surely Even Modernity Is A Poor Thing Beside Immortality. Since We Must All Die, Is It Not Perhaps Better To Be A Dead Lion Than A Living Dog?

We Put [young Children] Into Kindergarten Where Their Reasoning Powers Are Ruined; Or, If We Can Afford It, We Buy Montessori Outfits That Were Invented For Semi-imbeciles In Italian Slums; Or We Send Them To Outdoor Schools And Give Them Prizes For Sleeping.

Simplicity Is An Acquired Taste. Mankind, Left Free, Instinctively Complicates Life.

The Great Mistake Of The Reformers Is To Believe That Life Begins And Ends With Health, And That Happiness Begins And Ends With A Full Stomach And The Power To Enjoy Physical Pleasures, Even Of The Finer Kind.