Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 18, 1872 Death: February 2, 1970
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it..
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness..
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected..
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself..
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if….
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time..
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind..
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance..
It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who th….
The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his ….
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict..
Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy..
Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart..
Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife..
Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobi….
It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no acco….
We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows..
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results..
In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicari….
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires..