“But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”

“The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.”

“As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice! Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve.”

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

“..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon...”

“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.”