It Is Only The Great Men Who

Had There Been A Lunatic Asylum In The Suburbs Of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ Would Infallibly Have Been Shut Up In It At The Outset Of His Public Career. That Interview With Satan On A Pinnacle Of The Temple Would Alone Have Damned Him, And Everything That Happened After Could Have Confirmed The Diagnosis. The Whole Religious Complexion Of The Modern World Is Due To The Absence From Jerusalem Of A Lunatic Asylum.

For Every Fresh Stage In Our Lives We Need A Fresh Education, And There Is No Stage For Which So Little Educational Preparation Is Made As That Which Follows The Reproductive Period.

So Far As Business And Money Are Concerned, A Country Gains Nothing By A Successful War, Even Though That War Involves The Acquisition Of Immense New Provinces.

Here, Where We Reach The Sphere Of Mathematics, We Are Among Processes Which Seem To Some The Most Inhuman Of All Human Activities And The Most Remote From Poetry. Yet It Is Here That The Artist Has The Fullest Scope Of His Imagination.

Every Man Of Genius Sees The World At A Different Angle From His Fellows, And There Is His Tragedy.