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

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief w….

The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is….

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day..

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents.

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress..

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond th….

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor o….

[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within they are such thing….

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance..

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which….

Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we d….

It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do….

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business..

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full..

To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But thi….

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much ….

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government..

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety..

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in..

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich..