Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purpose….

Some people would rather die than think..

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept..

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos..

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions..

No great achievement is possible without persistent work..

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures….

dont let the old break you; let the love make you.

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is ….

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We all feel instinctively, th….

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I ….

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Ch….

Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors….

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public….

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be….

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to….

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false..

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading.

It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too litt….

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries..

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence..