People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. N….

Worry is a form of fear..

Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to posses….

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a ….

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom ev….

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, ….

Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, w….

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be ov….

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity….

...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no absolute morality, that moralities ar….

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when….

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, b….

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any pa….

The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists thin….

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say..

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I h….

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy..

Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. ….

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness..

The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it..

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better t….