Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy..

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held te….

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice..

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it..

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly..

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority..

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true..

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all,….

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the ….

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if the….

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is mo….

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles..

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work..

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort an….

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos..

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope….

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful result….

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might c….

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work..

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself..

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster..