Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit..

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age..

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful..

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses..

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions..

Beware the man of the single book.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better..

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, wi….

While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as….

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked..

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible..

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation..

From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with this outloo….

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead..

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more a….

Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious edu….

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine..

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out..

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word..

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have in….