"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment."

"The fact that something is far-fetched is no reason why it should not be true; it cannot be as far-fetched as the fac…"

"Astonishment is the only realistic emotion."

"People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get."

"It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be exi…"

"The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations."

"The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else."

"When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people s…"

"The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs."

"On the face of it there is something rather strange about human psychology. Human beings live in a state of mind call…"