Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact..

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge..

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level..

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in q….

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation..

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition..

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics..

More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason ….

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscie….

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared ….

The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to som….

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater se….

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected..

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of th….

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never ha….

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love..

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics..

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out..

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves..

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it..

Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thought….