All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.