Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race..

We ought to look the world frankly in the face..

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort..

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician..

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man..

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr….

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom..

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do..

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events..

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical..

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of creat….

Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. [...] From India to Spain….

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my ….

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make ….

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. T….

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day..

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man.

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before..

I do so hate to leave this world..

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action..