When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired..

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feel….

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry..

To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the envir….

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake n….

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industri….

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not ….

The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though n….

(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arb….

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferior….

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality..

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than ….

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause..

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary..

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought..

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuse….

Do not feel certain of anything..

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience..

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were su….

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the….

I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home ….