Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]..

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by….

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terro….

The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The re….

The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself to be an individual d….

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any p….

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death..

There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion..

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our t….

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?.

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give..

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities..

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the crimina….

There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it….

People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity ans….

Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, me….

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters..

We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not ….

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive rea….