To fear love is to fear life..

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partia….

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of me….

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for….

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those ….

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go..

There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic co….

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spr….

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest..

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relat….

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people wou….

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but l….

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man..

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings..

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization..

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holder….

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy..

When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out.….

Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on the….

I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not ….