I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who ….

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name..

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to ….

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless conte….

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass ….

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not..

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barba….

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth..

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest..

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic..

As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they repeate….

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her ….

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you..

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage..

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wro….

Indemnity for the past and security for the future..

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because ….

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the ro….

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence..

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in th….

If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be ….