All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between….

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else..

The above proposition is occasionally useful..

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead..

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell..

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in ….

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge..

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities ….

Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursu….

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science,….

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation..

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, bef….

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Sp….

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs….

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled….

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived..

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new..

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf..

And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentl….

The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material….