No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle..

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more con….

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism wi….

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians….

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this ….

Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more st….

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously..

There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanti….

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science..

Envy is the basis of democracy..

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed….

I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , a….

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes ….

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the w….

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselve….

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not m….

Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even mo….

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defe….

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evide….

Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most po….

What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning….