“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.”

“The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.”

“The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out.”

“I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs Darwinism at all. Darwinism is certainly needed, however, in order to pose as a philosopher, since it is primarily a worldview. And an awful one, as George Bernard Shaw used to say.”

“An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)”

“His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw”

“There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things." Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw”

“The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.”

“Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.”

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ”