Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler….

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industri….

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out..

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art..

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuse….

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary..

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science..

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause..

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not ….

I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home ….

To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the envir….

Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales..

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the….

(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arb….

Americans need rest, but do not know it..

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the r….

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God..

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake n….

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him..

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the ….

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut ….