I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything..

Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love..

... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the ….

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity o….

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways..

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure..

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry..

The saviors of the world, society's last hope..

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only beca….

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil..

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your ….

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education..

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy..

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches..

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its….

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it..

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a v….

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man..

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropria….

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have trie….

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh..