...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike ….

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by ….

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique..

In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was….

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the ….

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible..

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this….

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth abo….

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms.

A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past..

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time..

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

A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, e….

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a….

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what….

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an adv….

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality..

Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it is a duty. To say that it is your duty to ….

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, oppon….

In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . . . spent billions of public money ….

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change..