Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is….

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted..

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the st….

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love..

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never..

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know..

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness..

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we coul….

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life..

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy.

I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall ve….

The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've notice….

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection ….

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation..

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the i….

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships..

The camera is as subjective as we are..

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of th….

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

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children..

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated..